The archae­o­log­i­cal site of Chavin gave its name to the cul­ture that devel­oped between 1500 and 30…

The park cov­ers an area of 3,367 sq km mak­ing it the 7th largest nation­al park in the coun­try. Th…

Locat­ed in the arid Peru­vian coastal plain, some 400 km south of Lima, the geo­glyphs of Nasca and…

Sit­u­at­ed in the Peru­vian Andes, Cuz­co devel­oped, under the Inca ruler Pacha­cutec, into a com­plex …

The Chimu King­dom, with Chan Chan as its cap­i­tal, reached its apogee in the 15th cen­tu­ry, not lon…

The park was cre­at­ed in 1983 to pro­tect the fau­na and flo­ra of the rain­forests that are char­ac­ter…

The his­toric cen­tre of Are­quipa, built in vol­canic sil­lar rock, rep­re­sents an inte­gra­tion of Euro…

The Ama­zo­nia sub­pop­u­la­tion of jaguar comes to an esti­mat­ed 57,000, accord­ing to the IUCN – near­ly…

Although severe­ly dam­aged by earth­quakes, this ‘City of the Kings‘ was, until the mid­dle of the 1…

The 5000-year-old 626-hectare archae­o­log­i­cal site of The Sacred City of Car­al-Supe is sit­u­at­ed on…

Machu Pic­chu stands 2,430 m above sea-lev­el, in the mid­dle of a trop­i­cal moun­tain for­est, in an e…

The biggest church in Cuz­co, in front of Plaza de Armas. As a tourist the entrance is S/25. If yo…

The ruins of an Inca palace, the home of 15th-cen­tu­ry Inca emper­or Pachaku­ti Inka Yupan­ki, which …

The largest lake in Peru, resid­ual in ori­gin. Despite the fact that Lake Tit­i­ca­ca is large, its e…

If there is such a thing as a par­ty oasis, this is it. Set in the sand dunes of Peru’s south-west…

Arsenic, cad­mi­um and lead are among the many pol­lu­tants present in La Oroya, a min­ing town. These…

Accord­ing to the Natu­ra Vive alpine resort, the next best thing to sleep­ing in a condor’s nest is…

Cov­ered in wide lines of pas­tel blue, intense red, green, pink and yel­low. There are cur­rent­ly no…

Pun­ta Sal in north­ern Peru is some­what still a secret for inter­na­tion­al vis­i­tors, though locals l…

Apt­ly named because of its rust-col­ored sands, Playa Roja (Red Beach) sits at the heart of the Pa…