Historic sites
Cusco
Cusco
The old Inca capital, at 3,400 m, with Spanish churches built on Inca walls, a UNESCO site.
Historic sites in Peru
Historic sites
Machu Picchu
Cusco
The 15th-century Inca citadel on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba valley, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
Historic sites
Sacred Valley of the Incas
Ollantaytambo, Cusco
The fertile Urubamba valley between Cusco and Machu Picchu, with Inca terraces and towns: the fortress of Ollantaytambo, the Pisac market and ruins, …
Historic sites
Kuélap
Provincia de Luya, Amazonas
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…
Historic sites
Nazca Lines
Nazca, Ica
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…