PERSONAL PORTERS can be hired to help carry your personal items such as clothes, sleeping bag etc. The services of a third of a porter (maximum 6kg or 13lb per person) can be hired for US$75 per the whole trek. If you hire the services of a third of a porter we will provide you with a lockable porter bag to safeguard your equipment (you will need to supply the small padlock). However even with this service you will still need to take a daypack to carry your essential items such as rain poncho, warm fleece, camera and water bottle. Please note that due to new government regulations introduced in June 2005 the maximum number of porters that we can use in each group has now been capped. This is why we have had to limit the maximum amount of personal equipment that you can give to a porter to carry for you to 6kg or 13lb per person. The maximum amount that each porter can carry on the Inca Trail has also been limited to 18kg or 40lb per porter. Approximately 20% of our clients hire the services of an extra third porter.
We can also provide vegetarian meals or cater for special diets at no extra cost but we need to know when you make the trek reservation.
YOU CAN HIRE SLEEPING BAGS in our office. All sleeping bags are synthetic (easy to wash). They are washed after every use and are guaranteed to be clean. After we have hired out our standard sleeping bags just 12 times we donate it to a porter to use. We have now issued sleeping bags free of charge to all of our porters (over a 100 in total) although they are constantly being replaced as they become old and worn out. Price US$15 per person for the 4 day trek. Weight 1.9 kg and are rated to 5 degrees below freezing (nice and warm even during the coldest of nights experienced on the Inca Trail).
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