It’s Monday morning at Machu Picchu and by 10 a.m. the site is already crowded. The footpaths that snake up the mountainside terraces are lined with elderly Americans in cargo vests, Aussie ...

Mary Charleson and friends have returned from their trip to Peru. Here is the second part of her Reader Postcard. Having been attracted to the peacefulness of a less traveled route and the exclusivity ...

The Peruvian government has initiated a controversial proposal to construct a new road to the famed “lost city” of the Incas, Machu Picchu. Opponents of the idea fear it would destroy the character of ...

A 500-year-old road to the Incan site of Machu Picchu was recently discovered by archaeologists working near the famous site. The road is about a mile long and ends near a site overlooking the ruins ...

Peru’s Lares Trail is the road less traveled to Machu Picchu. Outshined by the popular Salcantay and Inca trails, Lares is the cultural cousin to Peru’s prized twins, and Lares offers what other treks ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. Peru is a poor man sitting on a throne of gold,’ says my guide Julia. I’m not entirely ...

Access to the world-famous ruins of Machu Picchu is temporarily as difficult as it was for the Incas who occupied this remote mountain-top site in the 15th and 16th Centuries. On Christmas Day, a ...

The significant ones. My first boyfriend, my brother, my mom, my dad, my Danish host parents, all four grandparents, my best friend. The roots of my tree. My tribe. Death by suicide, impaired driver, ...

The Incas made their last stand in these tangled and jungly mountains, eluding their Spanish pursuers for nearly four decades. Even today it's a brambly jumble of misty cloud forests, glacier-draped ...