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The Inca Trail is part of the
Machu Picchu Sanctuary,
administered by the Peru
National Institute of Natural
Resources, INRENA. All tourists
must comply park regulations
prohibiting dump garbage,
damaging trees or plants,
removing or damaging stones of
ruins and the Trail, removing
plants, killing animals,
lighting open fires or camping
in the archeological sites (only
authorized campsites can be used).
This procedures must be
followed:
1. Payment of entrance
fees:
a. the ticket issued by the
Machu Picchu Historical
Sanctuary Management Unit (UGM)
is the only valid document
granting the right to walk the
Inca Trails Network (the
Machupicchu Historical Sanctuary
Network RED or SHM). This ticket
is personal and non transferable,
and includes the entrance fee to
Machu Picchu.
b. Payment for the right to
use the RED can only be done in
the city of Cusco.Its cost is
US$50, included in the payment
will make to an authorized
agency.
c. Under no circumstances,
payment for the use of the RED
will be accepted at its registry
and entry control points.
d. Payment for the right to
use the RED must be made a
minimum of five (5) days before
beginning the trip and the
acquisition must be made under
your name.
e. The reimbursement of
payment for the right to use the
RED is not possible under any
circumstance.
f. In case of having done the
corresponding payment for the
right to use the RED and having
fixed the dates of the visit,
these dates can be postponed
with four (4) days notice,
providing an additional payment
of 20%, and subject to place
availability for the dates and
routes required.
2. Reservations
a. Reservations will be made
in the offices of the
Departmental Headquarters of the
National Institute of Culture in
the city of Cusco, receiving
confirmation with corresponding
reservation code.
Note: Reservations will be
subject to the daily capacity
issued by the UGM (500 people,
including guides, porters,
helpers and around 150
tourists), so we recommend you
to reserve your place with as
much notice as possible.
b. The Tour Operator can ask
for reservations up to sixty
(60) days before the trip
begins, making a payment for the
equivalent of fifty percent
(50%) of the entrance ticket.
c. To maintain the
reservation, the Tour Operator
must cancel the balance due and
provide full names, passport
numbers, ages, nationalities and
passport photocopies of all
those going on the trip, to the
relevant authorities. The
traveler must send this
information and documentation to
us from his or her home country.
d. Failure to confirm
reservations will result in
their cancellation, and no
reimbursement of fees will be
made in this case.
e. Only people under 28 years
old with valid International
Student Identification will be
considered as a student,
entitling them to a 50% discount
on the RED entrance fee.
Elements not allowed in
the network of the Inca Trail:
a. Air or firearms tablet,
arcs and arrows, implements of
hunting and fish, axes,
machetes, mount knives, tips,
shovels or other tools.
b. Any type of trap for
capture fauna specimen .
c. Fossil Fuels such as:
kerosene, diesel petroleum,
gasoline.
d. Stimulating, psicotropics,
narcotics and other drugs not
allowed by the effective
national legislation.
e. Equipment of sound and
others generators of annoying
noises.
f. Domestic animals and
exotic species.
g. Canes with metallic end
that no have rubber protector or
wood canes of native species.
h. Bottles, plastic packages
and dispensable glasses.
Of the Remainders Solids The
travel agencies and tourism,
guides of tourism and personnel
of support, are forced to select
in organic and inorganic the
solid remainders generated and
to retire them outside SHM
during your permanence in the
network of the Inca Trail. Of
the Security of the Users And
the Natural and Cultural
Patrimony of the SHM Itīs
prohibited to move by the
network of the Inca Trail
between the 19:00 hours and
05:30 hours, except for verified
acts of a greater force. |
