Throughout February, the Inca Trail to <a href=" Picchu—located in Cusco region and considered one of the world's premier trekking routes—will be closed to tourism as part of comprehensive maintenance ...

SALKANTAY PASS, Peru – Our hiking group had reached the highest point of our trek through the Andes to Machu Picchu. Now our guide was leading us in a Quechua ritual. We took turns placing stones in ...

Today, Machu Picchu is among South America’s most visited historical sites. Here are amazing things we know about this legacy ...

Machu Picchu will always be a bucket-list destination, but its popularity comes with drawbacks. Consider this alternative ...

It’s easy to say that until you have set foot onto the hallowed grounds of Machu Picchu, that you cannot truly imagine such beauty, such grandeur, or such a heavenly ambiance in one natural setting; ...

The Incas—a civilization that ruled over vast swathes of South America's Andean region in the 15th and 16th centuries—intentionally built Machu Picchu, and other cites, in a location where tectonic ...

Get up early in Machu Picchu, they said. Stay overnight in the Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge and awaken in the dark. Come the dawn, a strange feeling might pass through you. Unusual things could happen ...

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