After our day of hiking and visiting Machu Picchu we rode back to Cusco on the same route, except for an excursion to the Inca terraces in Pisac. Fortunately, the stream crossings had waned by then.

Many are just as awe-inspiring as Machu Picchu but with only a fraction of the tourists. One of the best examples of these under-the-radar gems is Huchuy Qosqo, an ancient Inca village and citadel ...

(The National Geographic Society helped fund Bingham on excursions to Machu Picchu in 1912 and 1915.) Bingham believed he had found Vilcabamba, the so-called Lost City of the Inca where the last ...

Machu Picchu was only one of many cities ... We participated in the village’s Procession of the Llama and walked with these Inca descendants along a section of the Inca Road.

along with journalists arrived on Sunday morning at Machu Picchu Pueblo, the village closest to the citadel, after a 90-minute journey along the Urubamba River from the ancient Inca village of ...

Machu Picchu is the granddaddy of archeological sites. Set in the Andes Mountains, the site was once an estate for the Inca emperor, as well as a place of worship and education. When the Spanish ...

How do you get to Machu Picchu? Machu Picchu can be reached a variety of ways, including hiking the Inca Trail with a tour company, by train or by bus. When is the best time to visit Machu Picchu?

Here’s a cool fact to share with children visiting Machu Picchu in Peru—the place probably ... it’s more than you imagined. The Inca were the end result of 5,000 years of civilization ...

Inca mastery of landscape and environment is epitomised at Machu Picchu, their most famous ruin. Many archaeologists believe Machu Picchu was a summer retreat for the emperor and his family.