Thinking of hiking Peru’s famed Inca Trail? Here’s what to know about Machu Picchu’s recent protests, and why it could lose ...

A Japanese tourist who has had a ticket to visit the world heritage site Machu Picchu in Peru since March finally got to visit the Inca citadel ruins on Saturday. Jesse Takayama got in after he put in ...

Peru opened the ruins of Machu Picchu for a single Japanese tourist after he waited almost seven months to enter the Inca citadel, while trapped in the Andean country during the coronavirus outbreak.

That’s not Machu Picchu’s fault, of course. The dramatic sweep of terraces and walls perched 8,000 feet above Peru’s Urubamba River Valley is suitably impressive, the stuff of travel posters and ...

HOLIDAYMAKERS hoping to tick Machu Picchu off their bucket lists have been left stranded after furious locals blocked off the only rail route to the world-famous Inca ruins. At least 900 ...

A valley between Leymebamba and Chachapoyas. Over the past few decades, Peru has been trying to weightily designate a number of its archaeological sites as “the next Machu Picchu,” after the famed ...

No trip to Peru is complete without exploring the Inca ruins that surround Cusco, but many travelers rush straight to Machu ...

In the shadow of Peru’s famed Machu Picchu, a group of researchers have discovered a cat-sized chinchilla that has long thought to be extinct but instead is alive and well. The furry creature, which ...

Peru indefinitely shut the famed ancient ruins of Machu Picchu on Saturday in the latest sign that anti-government protests that began last month are increasingly engulfing the South American country.

Located on the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains, nearly 8,000 feet above sea level, Machu Picchu is Peru's most famous archeological treasure. Hidden by Western civilization for hundreds of years ...

Machu Picchu was brought to the world’s attention after American Hiram Bingham III rediscovered the Incan site more than a century ago, a blip in time for the high-altitude ruins that date to the 15th ...

Hidden away for centuries in the mountainous cloud forests of Peru, the well-preserved Incan ruins of Machu Picchu are a must for any traveler’s bucket list. Though the site’s origins remain ...