Peru's famous Machu Picchu is an iconic destination in South America. Dubbed "the lost city of the Incas," the 15th-century citadel was discovered in 1911 by American explorer Hiram Bingham and was ...

Hiking to Machu Picchu has long been on my bucket list. That a 600-year-old abandoned town built by the Incans is still ...

Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 meters above sea level in southern Peru, where the Andes and the Amazon Basin ...

FILE - The Machu Picchu archeological site is devoid of tourists while it's closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the department of Cusco, Peru, Oct. 27, 2020. Cusco, the town closest to the Inca ...

After Paramount's 2023 "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" featured Peru extensively, interest in the South American country spiked, particularly in the ancient citadel of Machu Picchu, the colonial ...

Elvis Lexin La Torre Uñaccori knows quite well that a wonder of the world often creates a less-wondrous world of waste — he is the mayor of Machu Picchu Pueblo, the gateway village to the bucket-list ...

Macchu Picchu is to Peru what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris. Making it more available to tourists could reverse its sluggish recovery. Peru is expected to raise the daily visitor cap for Machu Picchu, ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Two trains taking tourists to Peru’s famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu crashed on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring around 30 passengers. The person killed ...

Machu Travel Peru has been honoured as “Peru’s Leading Destination Management Company” at the Caribbean & The Americas ceremony of the World Travel Awards, held on July 1st at the opulent Sandals St.