How to Plan a Trip to Peru’s Machu Picchu in 2024

Peru is loosening restrictions on visitors to Machu Picchu to encourage more tourism.
How to Plan a Trip to Peru’s Machu Picchu in 2024
Tourists walk along the paths of the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru in September 2023. Colleen Thomas/TNS
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By Lily Girma From Bloomberg News

It used to be that you could visit Machu Picchu more than once on the same ticket—entering the Incan ruins at daybreak and then circling back around to see the afternoon sun cast its light on different facets of the jagged landscape and its 500-year-old relics. You could also come without a guide, following your curiosity or a stray alpaca around the expansive grounds. But no matter how you went, lots of planning was required—typically through third parties who controlled the ticketing systems and imposed on it a web of opaque rules and regulations.