Thinking of trekking to Machu Picchu? From surviving Dead Woman’s Pass to the Sun Gate, here is the unfiltered reality of hiking the 4-day Classic Inca Trail.

Six forgotten Inca ruins remain embedded within the modern urban architecture of Cusco, Peru. Centuries of colonial conquest ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. LIMA, Peru — Although the top tourist ...

Pisac Ruins rise high above Peru’s Sacred Valley, revealing an extensive landscape of ancient Inca terraces, stone structures, and steep mountain slopes. The carefully shaped agricultural terraces ...

In the land of the Condor, near the base of the tallest mountain in the Western hemisphere, an Incan community lived. The people hunted along the sheer hillsides, they farmed, they collected water ...

Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged a mighty empire.

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 ...

The top tourist destination in Peru is the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Not so well known is that the capital Lima also holds many ancient ruins — so many that that they can't all be taken care of.

LIMA (Reuters) - Throughout their history of poverty and political turmoil, Peruvians have been fiercely proud of their elaborate, spicy food and new superstar chefs are now a magnet for culinary ...