The catch is that you really need at least 2 or 3 days in
Cuzco to acclimatize to the elevation before undertaking a trek. And the treks
are a minimum of 3-4 days in duration. So with travel, getting used to
elevation, trekking and then a day at Machu Piccu, we could easily use up 8 or
more days of our 21 day vacation.
We were concurrently contemplating diverting
the trip into Bolivia for either a jungle excursion and/or Salar de Uyuni. So
this is what we did...
(to be continued)