The Inca Trail is approximately 26 miles long and leads to one of the most iconic sites in the world: Machu Picchu. Millions of people trek to the 15th-century Citadel to see a well-preserved Incan ...

A century after American adventurer and tomb-looter Hiram Bingham came across Machu Picchu hidden deep in the Andes, thousands of visitors come daily to ponder its mysteries and marvel at Inca ...

Beholding the ancient incan ruins of machu Picchu as they rise from the Peruvian jungle is a joy that deserves to be on everyone’s travel wish list. But did you know that there’s more than one way to ...

SHORTLY BEFORE MY TREK through the Peruvian Andes, my friend Cassandra announced that the Inca empire’s cape-clad citizens are still floating around the ruins of Machu Picchu. “Actually,” she ...

Built high in the Peruvian Andes on the western edge of the Amazon Basin, the Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu has astounded ...

MACHU PICCHU, PERU — Daily they swarm this mystical city of the Incas where the high ridges of the Peruvian Andes fall away to meet the Amazon rain forest. The tourists — about 2,000 each day — tramp ...

A young tourist accused of sneaking into Machu Picchu and damaging the site faces jail time, while five others who also spent an unauthorized night in the Inca complex have been deported by Peru. The ...

The World Monuments Fund (WMF) is calling on the Peruvian government to suspend construction of an airport near the Sacred Valley of the Incas, also known as the Urubamba river valley. The land chosen ...