The Andes6 places
- Cusco & the Sacred ValleyThe ancient capital of the Inca empire, the "navel of the world," where Spanish colonial churches and mansions were…
- Lake TiticacaThe highest navigable lake in the world, an immense sheet of deep blue water high in the Andes, where people live on…
- ChoquequiraoThere is a second Machu Picchu, larger than the first, and to reach it you have to walk for two days into a canyon.…
- Huaraz & the Cordillera BlancaThe highest tropical mountain range on Earth — more than fifty peaks above 5,700 m packed into 180 km — reached from a…
- Machu PicchuAn Inca royal estate built on a knife-edge ridge at 2,430 metres, abandoned within a century of its construction, never…
- Arequipa & the Colca CanyonA white volcanic-stone city under three volcanoes, and four hours north of it a canyon twice the depth of the Grand…
Lima & the Coast2 places
- LimaOne of the world's great food cities, a sprawling Pacific capital where clifftop bohemian districts overlook the surf…
- The Nazca LinesEnormous figures, a hummingbird, a monkey, a spider, and straight lines running for kilometres, etched into the desert…
The Peruvian Amazon1 place
- The Peruvian AmazonPeru's vast, pristine slice of the Amazon, among the most biodiverse places on the planet, where you can drift the…
Northern Peru1 place
- Chachapoyas & KuélapNorthern Peru's answer to Machu Picchu without the crowds: a massive stone citadel wrapped in cloud forest, built by…