Looking for all the essential information to plan and prepare for your trip to Cusco? This guide to buses to Machu Picchu will help you understand one of the most important parts of your journey. In this section, you’ll also find a complete travel guide to Peru, designed to make your experience smooth and well-organized.
Transportation from Aguas Calientes to Machu Picchu is mainly provided by shuttle buses that travel along a winding mountain road. Here, we explain where to purchase tickets, current prices, and exactly when and where to catch the bus so you can reach Machu Picchu comfortably and without stress.
Guide to buses to Machu Picchu
The bus is the easiest way to reach Machu Picchu on time for you entrance slot. However you can also follow the winding Inca path way from Aguas Calientes town to the entrance. Alternatively, you could get the bus up and walk down or vice versa. Machu Picchu Bus Machu Picchu Bus.
Purchasing
You can either get you ticket through a tour operator as combined part of your trek. Or you can purchase it yourself in Cusco at: av. Infancia 433
Alternatively you can purchase from the bus ticket office in Aguas Calientes inself at: Avenida Hermanos Ayar S/N.
Prices
- One way : $12 / PEN 40
- Return trip: $24 / PEN 80
If paying in cash at either of the ticket offices the currencies which are excepted is both American Dollars and Peruvian Sols.
Sheludes
Buses run every 10 minutes and depart from the lower part of the main street, just outside the ticket office. The winding route up to the entrance of Machu Picchu take approx 25min.
The first bus to depart is 5.30am and the last is 3.30pm
Personal details needed to make a booking Machu Picchu
- Contact Email of lead participant
- Name of lead participant
Passport number of lead participant - Country of nationality (If mixed within the group, please you nationality of lead participant)
- Numbers attending (Adults and Children)
How you wish to pay (This will not automatically create payment)
