The Cordillera Blanca is the highest tropical mountain range in the world, in Huascarán National Park. The day hike to Laguna 69, a turquoise lake beneath glaciers at 4,600 m, is one of Peru's finest.
Huaraz is the base. Acclimatise for a few days first. The Santa Cruz trek takes 4 days.
A massive walled citadel of the Chachapoya 'cloud people' on a ridge in northern Peru, with hundreds of round stone houses, older than Machu Picchu a…
Lima is one of the great food cities of the world: eat ceviche at a cevichería, try Nikkei and Chifa cuisine, and visit the Surquillo market.
A small oasis lagoon surrounded by huge sand dunes.
Giant geoglyphs of animals, plants and lines drawn in the desert between 500 BC and 500 AD, a UNESCO site, best seen from small planes on 30-minute f…
The classic Inca Trail is a 4-day, 43 km hike on original Inca stone paths from Km 82 in the Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu, passing Inca ruins, cloud…
The 15th-century Inca citadel on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba valley, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
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