Machu Picchu is one big marketing myth. At least, that’s how our guide, Leo, puts it as we wander the breathtaking fog-shrouded Inca ruins. First off, he says, the 600-year-old city wasn’t hidden: ...

Having grown up in Norfolk, I know flat terrain when I see it - and despite my guide’s claim, the footpath in front of us was nothing like home. “Peruvian flat,” he suggested as a compromise. I would ...

Our readers share tales of their ramblings around the world. Who: Cheryl Leaman (the author) and her husband, Carlo Iannandrea, both of Chantilly, Va. Where, when, why: We spent two weeks in Peru, ...

The blares of a strolling trumpeter in the farm-hemmed village of Urquillos in Peru’s Sacred Valley draw a Pied Piper-like procession of costumed dancers, skipping children and more solemn supplicants ...

CHOQUEQUIRAO, PERU — I’m seated cross-legged on a narrow terrace thousands of feet above the raging Apurimac River, the jagged silhouettes of the Peruvian Andes before me, the glowing stones of a 15th ...

StarDome Peru, a domed boutique hotel, will officially opened to visitors February 1. Located between Cusco and Machu Picchu, in the Sacred Valley, the hotel is co-founded and run by the local ...

If your most recent reference to Peru is from watching The Emperor’s New Groove, it’s time to update that. An absolute bucket list trip that may have never crossed your mind before right now is the ...

Deep within Peru’s mystical Sacred Valley, 2800 meters above sea level, at the foot of a towering Inca trail to Machu Picchu that’s set along quinoa fields, ancient crop terraces and small villages, ...