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 ...

Peru is battling a wave of extortion that has led to bus drivers being murdered and dozens of schools and businesses forced to close for refusing to pay protection money to criminal gangs. The ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Throughout their history of poverty and political turmoil, Peruvians have been fiercely proud of their elaborate, spicy food and new superstar chefs are now a magnet for culinary ...

LIMA (Reuters) - A team of archeologists have discovered the ruins of what appears to be a 4,000-year-old ceremonial temple buried in a sand dune of northern Peru, alongside skeletal human remains ...

When Kim Pemberton made the journey to Machu Picchu last November, she found that while the ruins themselves remain largely ...

Something hidden. Go and find it. go and look behind the ranges — some thing lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go! —Rudyard Kipling, The Explorer For archaeologists in Peru, that ...

Here's a tip for visiting remote ruins in the cloud forests of northern Peru: If someone offers you a donkey, take it. I am not sure exactly when I realized this. It might have been early in my first ...