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Old Sep 17, 2011 | 10:28 am
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Not quite sure what your question means, but you can certainly have a conventional, pleasant tourist trip to Peru including Macchu Picchu in 7 days:

Day 1: Day in Lima
Day 2: Fly up to Cuzco
Day 3: Around Cuzco, Sacsayhuaman
Day 4: Get a driver to take you to Ollantaytambo (about 3 hours drive) or take a bus)
Day 5: Take the train to Macchu Picchu (about 3 hours each way). Get the last train back - gives you the whole afternoon in MC, and plan to hang around until last closing to get some peace.
Day 6, 7: Back out via Cuzco, Lima

Hotel Pakaritampu in Ollanyaytambo (3* hotel) was clean and pleasant, and about 2 minutes walk from the railway station.
http://www.pakaritampu.com/

Of course, you could also spend quite a few more weeks in Peru, walking the Inca trail, seeing the Nazca lines, into the Cordillera mountains in the north, heading over to the Bolivian border area, etc. etc. etc.

If you are thinking of spending 7 days in the Sanctuary or Aguas Calientes, IMHO, that would be too long.
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