\n\t\t\t\tThis high-altitude vantage point on the trail to Inti Punku (the Sun Gate) overlooks the town of Ollantaytambo and the winding Urubamba River far below in the Sacred Valley of Peru (Michel Henostroza)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>
\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nTomorrow morning they will hit the trail before dawn to reach\u00a0<\/span>Sun Gate at sunrise, the traditional Inca Trail entrance to the Machu Picchu Citadel. They will take a tour of the Machu Picchu site, then descend to the hotel in Agua Calientes for showers and a soft bed.\u00a0\u00a0So far so good in Peru!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 24, 2026 IMG guide Michel Henostrosa reports the weather has improved and the team has been having a nice trek.\u00a0 After three days on the trail, today they are heading for\u00a0the archaeological complex of Chachabamba.\u00a0 Then, they have a 3\u20134 hour ascent through the cloud-forest vegetation, orchids, and beautiful waterfalls to Wi\u00f1aywayna (2,650 m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27,262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-img-news","category-machu-picchu","category-peru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30207,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199\/revisions\/30207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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