The fabled route leading to Machu Picchu is one of the world's most jaw-droppingly beautiful treks – but it's also plagued by ...

Peru’s history dates back over 5,000 years, making it an intoxicating and addictive destination for history enthusiasts.

Steeped in death, conquest, desire, and mystery, the legend of the lost Inca gold is guarded by remote, mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates ...

On the morning of July 24, 1911, an enterprising lecturer-explorer from Yale University set off in a cold drizzle to investigate rumors of ancient Inca ruins in Peru. The explorer chopped his way ...

It ascends past Andean cloud forests to Warmiwañusca, the infamous "Dead Woman's Pass" at 4,215m, before descending to the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, one of the Seven New Wonders of ...

The Capacocha ritual was one of the most significant religious ceremonies in the Inca Empire. It involved sacrificing children and young women to deities and sacred places at the summits of ...

So they are in high – they are the peak of Peruvian history, the moment when we did the best. There are several problems with that because Peru is one thing now. The Inca are not necessarily Peru.

His acclaimed work, La Florida del Inca (1605), vividly chronicles Hernando de Soto’s expedition and is regarded as one of the earliest classics of American history and literature. On the ...

Perched high in the Andes Mountains of Peru, this ancient Incan citadel is a place of staggering beauty, rich history, and boundless adventure. But while it may seem like a destination best suited ...