Machu Picchu was brought to the world’s attention after American Hiram Bingham III rediscovered the Incan site more than a century ago, a blip in time for the high-altitude ruins that date to the 15th ...

Hidden away for centuries in the mountainous cloud forests of Peru, the well-preserved Incan ruins of Machu Picchu are a must for any traveler’s bucket list. Though the site’s origins remain ...

Here’s how we’d pictured it: Marching up to Machu Picchu at dawn, triumphantly finishing a four-day, 27-mile trek to the famed Incan ruins. Here’s how it actually happened: Hobbled by a violent ...

Four locations of Sacsayhuaman, Q’engo, Puka-Pukara, and Tambomachay are all within 5-10 kms of Cuzco. These sites are less known to tourists focused on the city of Cuzco itself. All of the sites are ...

SHORTLY BEFORE MY TREK through the Peruvian Andes, my friend Cassandra announced that the Inca empire’s cape-clad citizens are still floating around the ruins of Machu Picchu. “Actually,” she ...

Members of an expedition led by Lucho Tayori, a member of the indigenous tribe known as the Harakmbut, search for Incan ruins deep in the heart of the Peruvian amazon. Deep in the Peruvian Amazon sits ...

Inkaterra is a Peruvian organization that focuses on preserving Peru’s geography, nature, customs, cultures and sharing them with the world. It operates the Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel, named ...

A century after American adventurer and tomb-looter Hiram Bingham came across Machu Picchu hidden deep in the Andes, thousands of visitors come daily to ponder its mysteries and marvel at Inca ...

Porters on the famed Inca Trail trek to the jungle-shrouded ruins of Machu Picchu recall the fleet-footed chasqui — Inca messengers who darted over the vast road network of South America's most ...