{"id":1929,"date":"2025-01-30T13:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2025-02-15T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T20:51:12","slug":"machu-picchu-everything-you-need-to-know-about-circuit-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/index.php\/machu-picchu-everything-you-need-to-know-about-circuit-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Machu Picchu: Everything you need to know about Circuit 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we tell you about Machu Picchu: everything you need to know about circuit 3.<\/p>\n<p>The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu is one of the most visited places in South America. This Andean sanctuary receives around 2 million tourists a year. This number of tourists that this 500-year-old citadel receives year after year has significantly affected its foundations, putting it in a state of vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the risk of collapse that exists in some structures of Machu Picchu, the Ministry of Culture of Cusco has implemented new measures for the distribution of tourists from June 2024 in <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/tours-by-train-cusco\/machu-picchu-tour-by-train-1-day\/\">Machu Picchu<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the measures implemented is the distribution of Machu Picchu in 3 general circuits:<\/p>\n<p>Circuit 1<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/index.php\/machu-picchu-circuit-2\/\">Circuit 2<\/a><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/index.php\/machu-picchu-everything-you-need-to-know-about-circuit-3\/\">Circuit 3<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this blog we will focus on explaining in detail what circuit 3 is like.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_34 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Summary<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><label for=\"item\" aria-label=\"Tabla de contenidos\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"item\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1'><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/index.php\/machu-picchu-everything-you-need-to-know-about-circuit-3\/#Information_about_Machu_Picchu_Everything_you_need_to_know_about_Circuit_3\" title=\"Information about Machu Picchu: Everything you need to know about Circuit 3\">Information about Machu Picchu: Everything you need to know about Circuit 3<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3'><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/index.php\/machu-picchu-everything-you-need-to-know-about-circuit-3\/#In_the_heights_of_Machu_Picchu\" title=\"In the heights of Machu Picchu\">In the heights of Machu Picchu<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/index.php\/machu-picchu-everything-you-need-to-know-about-circuit-3\/#Photos_of_circuit_3\" title=\"Photos of circuit 3\">Photos of circuit 3<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Information_about_Machu_Picchu_Everything_you_need_to_know_about_Circuit_3\"><\/span>Information about Machu Picchu: Everything you need to know about Circuit 3<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Circuit 3 in Machu Picchu is underrated due to bad marketing done mostly by you tubers and tiktokers who visited the Inca citadel only once in their life. Due to this misinformation made by many people, this circuit is not as valued or in demand by tourists who long to visit the wonder of the world.<\/p>\n<p>However, circuit 3 is the most beautiful of all the circuits in Machu Picchu and here I explain the reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Although it is true that circuit 3 does not enter the Inca citadel from the upper part which gives you the most famous or marketed photo of the wonder of the world; the access that circuit 3 gives you allows you to observe Machu Picchu from the middle part, a view that in itself is already another wonder of the world. Circuit 3 allows you to have a beautiful and privileged view of Machu Picchu from the middle part of the Inca citadel.<\/li>\n<li>Circuit 3 allows you to visit the most beautiful buildings and sacred places of the Inca citadel. Places such as the enclosure of the sun, the royal mausoleum, the royal residence, the artisans&#8217; quarter, the main square, the sacred rock, the industrial sector, the inhabitants&#8217; house and the enclosure of the water mirrors.<\/li>\n<li>This circuit is ideal for families and adults as it has no steep climbs or descents.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The wonder of the world is beautiful from every angle, in the end, as a tour guide in Machu Picchu, as I always say, Machu Picchu is beautiful wherever you look!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t hesitate and visit one of the 7 wonders of the world.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"In_the_heights_of_Machu_Picchu\"><\/span>In the heights of Machu Picchu<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>It is a poem written by Pablo Neruda, Nobel Prize winner for literature. This jewel of Andean literature was inspired by the great lost city of the Incas and part of that inspiration came while Pablo Neruda was observing this Inca citadel from what we know today as circuit 3.<\/p>\n<p>Here we present stanza 6.<\/p>\n<p>VI<\/p>\n<p>Then on the scale of the earth I have climbed<br \/>\namong the atrocious tangle of the lost forests<br \/>\nto you, Machu Picchu.<\/p>\n<p>High city of scalar stones,<br \/>\nfinally home of the one who the terrestrial<br \/>\ndid not hide in the sleeping garments.<br \/>\nIn you, like two parallel lines,<br \/>\nthe cradle of lightning and of man<br \/>\nswayed in a wind of thorns.<\/p>\n<p>Mother of stone, foam of the condors.<\/p>\n<p>High reef of the human dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Shovel lost in the first sand.<\/p>\n<p>This was the home, this is the place:<br \/>\nhere the wide grains of corn rose<br \/>\nand fell again like red hail.<\/p>\n<p>Here the golden thread came out of the vicu\u00f1a<br \/>\nto clothe the loves, the tombs, the mothers,<br \/>\nthe king, the prayers, the warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Here the feet of man rested at night<br \/>\nnext to the feet of the eagle, in the high butcher&#8217;s lairs,<br \/>\nand at dawn<br \/>\nthey trod with the feet of thunder the rarefied fog,<br \/>\nand touched the earth and the stones<br \/>\nuntil they recognized them in the night or death.<\/p>\n<p>I look at the clothes and the hands,<br \/>\nthe vestige of the water in the sonorous hollow,<br \/>\nthe wall smoothed by the touch of a face<br \/>\nthat looked with my eyes at the earthly lamps,<br \/>\nthat oiled with my hands the vanished<br \/>\nwoods: because everything, clothing, skin, vessels,<br \/>\nwords, wine, bread,<br \/>\nwent away, fell to the earth.<\/p>\n<p>And the air entered with fingers<br \/>\nof orange blossom on all those asleep:<br \/>\na thousand years of air, months, weeks of air,<br \/>\nof blue wind, of iron mountain range,<br \/>\nthat were like gentle hurricanes of steps<br \/>\npolishing the solitary enclosure of the stone.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photos_of_circuit_3\"><\/span>Photos of circuit 3<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The collection of photos that I present below were taken by Eric Churata, a guide in <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machu_Picchu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Machu Picchu<\/a><\/span><\/strong> during 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1941\" style=\"width: 783px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1941\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1941 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.47.05-PM-1-773x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"trekking-specialist \" width=\"773\" height=\"1024\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>A postcard photo from circuit 3<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1942\" style=\"width: 782px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1942\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1942 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.47.04-PM-772x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"circuit-3-machu-picchu\" width=\"772\" height=\"1024\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Machu Picchu from circuit 3<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1939\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1939\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1939 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.47.06-PM-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"window-in-machu-picchu\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The temple of the water mirrows<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1938\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1938\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1938 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.47.06-PM-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"pisonay-tree\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Pisonay tree in Machu Picchu<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1937\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1937\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1937 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.47.07-PM-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"blacony-machu-picchu\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>View from a balcony<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1936\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1936\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1936 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.47.08-PM-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"picture-circuit-3\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Happy couple<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1940\" style=\"width: 787px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1940\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1940 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.47.05-PM-2-777x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Llamas-in-machu-picchu\" width=\"777\" height=\"1024\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Machu Picchu with Llamas<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1943\" style=\"width: 784px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1943\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1943 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.46.46-PM-774x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"machu-picchu-priest-house\" width=\"774\" height=\"1024\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The priest house in Machu Picchu<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1945\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1945\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1945 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.46.44-PM-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"sun-temple\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Sun temple in Machu Picchu<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1935\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1935\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1935 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/incagoexpeditions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.47.09-PM-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"the-sun-corridor\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The sun gate in Machu Picchu<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we tell you about Machu Picchu: everything you need to know about circuit 3. 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