As an alternative to visiting Machu Picchu, travelers can opt to explore other places in Peru, like Arequipa, surrounded by five volcanoes and home to the Monastery of Santa Catalina. Gabby Salazar, ...

Looking to cross off a bucket list trip? Here are the hiking shoes, pants and backpack I brought to Machu Picchu.

Permits to trek Peru’s Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in 2018 are being released four months early, October 1st. Peru’s ministry of culture issue 500 permits a day for the four-day hike with 200 being ...

Hiking the evocative Inca Trail to majestic Machu Picchu is one of the most famous and celebrated experiences in Peru, if not the entire world. But too often, famous translates to crowded. To manage ...

A team of Peruvian archaeologists has found a new trail leading to the Machu Picchu complex in Cusco, Peru — even if much of the road is still heavily covered by thick vegetation. The discovery was ...

People traveling the Inca Trail Network who wish to continue their journey to the <a href=" Picchu Llaqta —Peru's tourist jewel— will be able to do so by following a specific route designed for them, ...

I didn’t mind having to make my way through layers of tourists, crowding tiered ledges almost 8,000 feet above sea level. It only made the eventual reveal that much more effective. Whether it was ...

PERU, Ind. (WTHR) - Police in Miami County are looking for two people who attacked a mother and her children on a popular walking trail. In Peru, a lot of folks take their safety for granted on the ...

Most first-time travelers to Peru head straight for the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu, perhaps pausing in Lima for fresh ceviche, but rarely venture further. Yet beyond the well-trodden paths lies a ...