The Inca Trail runs 36 km of original stone path to Machu Picchu, over Dead Woman's Pass at 4,215 m and down through cloud forest to the ruins. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The route is verified against the real road, and your poster ships straight away.

Make it yours: 11 art styles, 10 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

What you get

Paper

200 gsm matte art paper

Print

Giclée, 300 dpi

Frames

Black, white or natural timber, ready to hang

Preview

The preview is the finished poster. We print the design you approve in the preview, with no proof to wait on.

The route

The trail follows a short surviving stretch of a much larger Inca road network, one that UNESCO recognises as running more than 30,000 km across the empire at its height, of which this 36 km is one inscribed section. Hiram Bingham, a Yale lecturer looking for a different lost city, was led to Machu Picchu by a local farmer on 24 July 1911 and published the ruins to the wider world soon after.

Before roads carried any wheeled traffic at all, Inca relay runners called chasqui carried messages along routes like this one, stationed roughly every 2.5 km and covering up to 240 km in a single day passing word from runner to runner. Peru now caps the trail at 500 people a day, a quota that counts guides and porters alongside trekkers, so the crowds Bingham never saw now book their place months in advance.

Made for someone who walked it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Annapurna Circuit, Camino de Santiago and Coast to Coast.

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