The Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu has astounded and confounded visitors since it was unveiled to the wider world more than ...

Peruvian authorities have guaranteed tourist services are to remain operational in Machu Picchu despite the recent declaration of emergency by the federal government. As per Supreme Decree 020 ...

In 1964, adventurer Gene Savoy identified ruins and proved that Espiritu Pampa (in the Vilcabamba region of Peru, west of Machu Picchu) was the lost city that Bingham had originally sought.

Peruvian authorities Wednesday decided to increase by a third the capacity of the archeological Machu Picchu ruins to welcome visitors, in a move to help the site's recovery after years of ...

Peru's most famous site is changing. Two leading travel specialists reveal their strategies for the perfect visit in 2025.

You will then have two visits to explore Machu Picchu, with plenty of time at leisure built-in to allow you to immerse yourself in these remarkable ancient ruins. Continue to the lesser-known but ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fifty miles north-west of Cusco, where the Andes crumple into the Amazon, lies Espíritu Pampa: the last ...

three to four-day trek along the cliffside above the Apurímac River is the sole route to these off-the-radar archaeological ruins. Much like its sister site, Machu Picchu, it sits high up in the ...

In fact, Machu Picchu ranks as one of the youngest of the ... of this precious metal are now found much further north in the ruins of Sipán. Its huge, truncated adobe pyramids were built in ...

Peru has opened the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu for a single Japanese tourist who had waited almost seven months to visit the world heritage site. Jesse Katayama was due to visit Machu Picchu in ...

An abandoned European town - likened to Machu Picchu - lies in France, where the remains of a mining site, including abandoned buildings and canteens, are housed.