Machu Picchu Private Guide: Circuit 2 at Your Pace
From €32 per person
See availability →Hire a private guide in Machu Picchu who meets you at the entrance and leads a visit of about two hours along circuit 2, with time for photos and questions.
With a private guide in Machu Picchu, the visit bends to what you want to know. Your official guide waits at the gate of the site, ahead of the ticket control, where you show your original passport along with your ticket. Once through, the guide walks you into the history, architecture and spirituality of the Inca city.
The guided walk lasts about two to two and a half hours, enough to go through the main areas without rushing: ceremonial temples, royal palaces, plazas, farming terraces, water channels and stairways, among them the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Three Windows. The route is circuit 2, the fullest and most photogenic one, which passes the classic viewpoint of the postcard view. If circuit 2 is no longer available when you book, circuit 3 is offered instead, a shorter visit; circuit 1 is also possible, on a route skirting the upper part of the citadel.
As the tour is private, you decide when to stop for a photograph, what to ask and whether to simply look out over the mountains quietly. The guide can lean towards archaeology, spiritual themes, history or the natural setting, depending on your interests.
Entrance tickets, the bus up to the site, food and tips are not included, so buy the ticket ahead of time. The guide speaks English or Spanish.