Peru Walking Tours | Classic Journeys

Peru Walking Tours Through the Sacred Valley, Inca Villages, and Machu Picchu

In the mountain village of Chinchero, a master weaver welcomes you into her home and studio. Watch as she spins wool, works with natural dyes and creates patterns using techniques passed down for centuries. Here in the Andes, Inca traditions aren’t something behind museum glass. They’re part of everyday life.

This is Peru guided tours, the Classic Journeys way: crafted through decades of relationships, designed for small groups, and defined by moments you simply can’t create on your own.

On our Peru walking tours, explore this remarkable corner of Latin America with expert native guides. Walk from the cobblestone streets and Inca stonework of Cusco into the high-altitude countryside of the Sacred Valley, where villages, farmland and archaeological sites are woven into the Andean landscape.

In the remote village of Viacha, meet local families before following countryside trails toward the ruins of Pisac. Nearby, a family whose ancestors have occupied their hacienda for more than 300 years welcomes you for a lunch of traditional Peruvian specialties and pisco sours in their garden overlooking the Sacred Valley.

Your walking adventures in Peru continue across Chinchero’s patchwork of farmland to the circular Inca terraces of Moray and the 3,000 salt wells of Salineras, which are still worked today. In Ollantaytambo, share trails with llamas and alpacas on your way to a remote Quechua community. Later, step into a local chef’s kitchen to prepare an Andean-style meal together.

Then comes Machu Picchu. Hike a section of the legendary Inca Trail through cloud forest to the Sun Gate, where Machu Picchu finally appears below, or arrive aboard the scenic train through the Urubamba Valley. Unlike the quick in-and-out visits many travelers make, you spend two nights here, with time to explore its temples, plazas and extraordinary stonework alongside your guide and on your own.

At day’s end, stay in accommodations rooted in their surroundings: a 500-year-old mansion in Cusco, a luxurious Andean retreat in the Sacred Valley, and hillside casitas tucked among tropical gardens and more than 140 species of orchids near Machu Picchu.

Join Classic Journeys’ expert local guides and discover Peru on foot, where ancient trails lead not only to extraordinary places, but to the people, cuisine and living traditions that bring them to life.