A Glimpse into History Machu Picchu's history is as intriguing as its breathtaking scenery. Built in the 15th century under ...

Tourist Attractions in Peru: Peru is a country with a ... salt pans terraced into the mountainside. These salt pans have been ...

The iconic Twelve-Angled Stone, located on the exterior of the Inca Roca Palace, just one block from <a href=" Cusco's Plaza ...

More than 500 years ago, this region was the heart of the Inca Empire ... Gordon Ramsay purchases salt at a market in Urubamba, Peru. Photograph by National Geographic/Ernesto Benavides The ...

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 ...

Winding through Peru's verdant landscape toward Machu Picchu, this famous four-day hike is not for the faint of heart. That said, recent travelers say the laborious trek pays off with gorgeous ...

Further north, another coastal group at Paloma were mummifying their dead as early as 4000 B.C. The Palomans used salt to stop decay ... By the time of the Inca civilization, which lasted from ...

At over 6,000 metres, Mt Ampato is one of the highest mountains in Peru, and a place were the Inca used in one of their most dramatic and powerful religious ceremonies: human sacrifice.

I am in my hiking era. This past summer, I trekked 500 km of the Camino de Santiago, and in January, I travelled to Peru to hike the iconic Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Climbing the ancient trail was ...

These high mountain sanctuaries dot the Andes from central Chile to southern Peru. All of the sites are located in the region of the two southernmost Inca quarters, or "suyus," but only a few of ...