Machu Picchu's strict pandemic rules work so well that they may be here to stay
. But even that change did not tackle the problem of people preferring to visit at the same time of day, especially at sunrise.
The park is still open 365 days a year from 6 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., but tickets are now sold for specific times of the day.Before the site reopened, it changed how it issues tickets. Formerly, it issued tickets for half-day blocks — either morning or afternoon. Now, visitors buy tickets for specific hours.
"There have been people that arrive to Cusco, and then they realize that … there are no tickets available for Machu Picchu," he said, referring to the Peruvian city located some 50 miles from the site. The Inca Trail faces similar Covid-19 restrictions as Machu Picchu — group sizes of eight plus a guide, mandatory mask-wearing when social distancing is not possible — even while hiking and at campsites, Rodriguez said.In 2019, four circuits, or fixed routes, were put in place at the Citadel for better crowd control and site management. Before that, those routes were merely recommended, and people could backtrack and explore more than one. Now, none of that is allowed.
A new visitor center, which is scheduled to begin construction this year, might allow some 6,000 daily visitors to tour Machu Picchu, said Bastante.
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