Quick Tips: Get up early and beat (most) of the crowds.
If you are going to hike up they only open the gates at 5am. (We left at 4am but had to wait around 30 minutes before the gates open.
It takes about 1 hour of stairs to hike up
You can take the bus if you have the money to blow
Hike Huayna (Wayna) Picchu mountain and not Machu Picchu mountain (Book your tickets ahead of time for the mountain)
Machu Picchu needs no introduction. It was built by the Incas in the 1500's. I was very surprised to to find out that it was so young (In the bigger picture). Just shows you how much I know about the Incas. We did the Salcantay trek to Machu Picchu, our guide told us we need to start hiking at 4am from Aquas Caliente to the top to make it in time for our 6am tour. Well seems they do not know what they are talking about because we had to wait 30 minutes in the dark for the gates to open at 5am. It took us exactly one hour to hike up. At the top we got our pretty informative guided tour and we all scattered to explore the place on our own. We made the mistake of getting the tickets for hiking Machu Picchu mountain instead of Huayna Picchu. I was feeling really sick that day and did not go up with the others. We took some photos with Llamas and just cruised around. The crowds did get pretty intense after a while so getting up there early is a good idea.
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