Machu Picchu Photo and History Tour with Private Guide
From €72 per group
See availability →A Machu Picchu photography tour with a private guide trained in archaeology, astroarchaeology and photography. The guide leads you to the best viewpoints, takes your photos and explains the citadel in three hours.
A Machu Picchu photography tour with a guide starts at your hotel or at the train station, from where you ride the bus to the entrance for about half an hour. With your tickets and passport shown at the gate, the first walk goes straight to the highest point of the site, where the postcard views are.
Your private guide has studied Machu Picchu for five years at university and has training in photography as well as in archaeology and astroarchaeology. The guide picks the photo spots, takes the pictures of you, and lets you stay at the main lookouts for as long as you like before going down into the ruins.
- Temple of the Sun
- Temple of the Three Windows
- Every corner of the citadel, explained with recent research
The visit is part history, part archaeology and part photo session, and it lasts about three hours. Afterwards the guide suggests places for a good lunch before you head back to Cusco. The tour includes the guide, the photos and the scientific information. Machu Picchu tickets, bus tickets, food, water and snacks are not included. It can be run in English, Portuguese, German, French or Italian.