If there is one pilgrimage that everyone should make in their lifetime, it would have to be the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

A trip of a lifetime that features on almost everybody’s Bucket List, trekking the Inca Trail is every bit as magical as you imagine it to be, and while it is by no means an easy hike, anyone with a good level of physical fitness can make it to Machu Picchu, and view the Empire of the Inca’s exactly how it should be viewed… from the Sun Gate above.

If you are thinking about trekking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, here are 20 inspirational photos that will have you grabbing your old kit bag and booking a flight ticket to Peru!