OUR STORY
For more than fifteen years, our Cusco-born team has opened its trails, tables and traditions to travelers who become, quite simply, part of ours.
THE BEGINNING
Machu Picchu Glory began in 2009 with a single guide, a single Jeep, and a promise: to show the Andes the way Valentín Quispe's own family had always known them — unhurried, personal, and full of reverence for the mountains.
What started as one man leading friends-of-friends up the Salkantay trail has grown, slowly and by word of mouth, into a boutique house of private journeys — still small enough that Valentín reviews every itinerary himself, still local enough that half our guides are cousins.
MILESTONES
CEO & FOUNDER
Born and raised in Cusco, Stefany studied Tourism at San Antonio Abad University. After a hospitality internship in the United States, she spent years as a travel advisor and as a Guest Services Officer aboard Royal Caribbean. All that experience brought her back home to share her Peru — and her most cherished memories — with every traveler.
ADMINISTRATOR · MSC IN PSYCHOLOGY
A psychologist by training, photographer and devoted listener. He is fascinated by the human soul and the stories held in stone; he has wandered Paris, Rome and Venice, yet none spoke to him with the tenderness of Cusco — his home and his centre. To him, every traveler is not a client but a story with a backpack and quiet spaces, welcomed from the very first moment like an old friend.
LEAD GUIDE
Has crossed the Salkantay pass 214 times — and counting.
MOUNTAIN GUIDE
Can name every peak on the horizon before sunrise.
HEAD PORTER
Once carried a 30kg duffel to the Sun Gate without stopping.
PORTER
Grew up herding llamas at 4,200 meters.
TRAVEL DESIGNER
Has personally scouted every boutique hotel on our routes.
TRAVEL DESIGNER
Speaks four languages and remembers every guest's birthday.
CAMP CHEF
Trained in Lima before coming home to cook his grandmother's recipes.
CAMP CHEF
Makes a pisco sour so good guests ask for the recipe at the summit.
Real trails, real families, real Andes — never a staged photo-op.
Certified guides, satellite communication and oxygen on every private route.
Carbon-neutral operations and trails we leave better than we found them.
Hotels, chefs and artisans chosen from within our own Cusco community.
BEGIN YOUR STORY
Tell us your dates, your pace and your dream — our Cusco atelier will do the rest.
