Visiting Peru was an 11-day family adventure. After taking a three-night cruise on the Amazon River and embarking on jungle ...

Peru is a country of great contrasts along the west coast of South America. It’s famous for its Amazon River, great natural ...

Today, Machu Picchu is among South America’s most visited historical sites. Here are amazing things we know about this legacy ...

Hidden in the clouds of Peru, Machu Picchu stayed secret for over 400 years. No maps. No records. Not even the Spanish found it. Was this ancient city lost… or hidden on purpose..

Flipping through my history book in elementary school, I’d stop on the page with photos of Machu Picchu thinking, “I HAVE to see this with my own eyes one day,” without even knowing exactly where ...

Machu Picchu will always be a bucket-list destination, but its popularity comes with drawbacks. Consider this alternative ...

In 1911, former U.S. senator and explorer Hiram Bingham rediscovered what would become one the “Seven Wonders of the Modern World,” a legendary ancient Incan citadel: Machu Picchu. Perched high on a ...

Machu Picchu is often presented as a single Inca masterpiece, but the architecture tells a more complicated story. Across the terraces and retaining walls, there are signs of massive older foundations ...

Forget what you know about peak season; Peru's most famous site is changing—and with it, the best time to visit Machu Picchu. Hidden from Spanish conquistadors for centuries and abandoned to the ...

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The sun had barely risen above the craggy peaks of the Andes when Hiram Bingham III stood on a ridge, breathless and peered down into the mist-shrouded valley below. It was July 24, 1911 and the ...