Below we show you information taken from the goverment trek permit .It shows the availability of trek permit in real time for teh inka trail .It’s indispensable to get this trek permits for the clasic 4 day inca trail, the shoter 2 day inca trail and 7 day Slakantay inca trail.
For each day there is a maximun of 500 trek permits that are given by the goverment in wich trekking staff are included so on average theres about 200 trek permits for tourist and about 300 for guides, cooks, and porters.
Others treks as Lares Valley, Ausangate, Choquequirao and 5 day Inca trail by Santa Teresa do not need trek permits.
It is really easy to use this dat base even though you’ll see the information in Sapanish.This is because this date base is mostly use by the agencies in cusco so they can see how much avalilability of the trek permits they have for some especifical date and to close their grups.
Step 1: First of all you have to check the year and month that you want to start the trek. The month options are similar to english so you can easily guess the spanish equivalent.
Step 2: Clic on “DISPONIBILIDAD” button this means availability.
Alter this the remaining spaces for each day will be shown so you can chose the date with all confidence.
IMPORTANT:
If you see that the result for the date that you’ve been asking is zero then you would have to find another date for the trek because all treks `permits have been sold so it dosen’t matter that you contact to others agencies non of them could provide you a space on the inka trail.
Be awere of this because you may find agencies that offer you spaces even though the data base show you that theres no space this could be a fraud.If some company have cancellations they can not change the names or pasport number for new real clients the sistem has been desing to prevent this happend.
Another important thing to remember is that if you see spaces on the date that you are checking above 200 you have some time to decide your trip, but be carefull because it can happend that the rate that the spaces drop Stara to increase. The last 100 spaces usually are sold in a day or so.This is the razon why it is recommended to book your inka trail as far in adevance as posible.