What do Machu Picchu in Peru and Palenque in Mexico have in common? Both are spectacular, as globetrotting writer Nellie ...

In 1911, former U.S. senator and explorer Hiram Bingham rediscovered what would become one the “Seven Wonders of the Modern World,” a legendary ancient Incan citadel: Machu Picchu. Perched high on a ...

Three decades ago, the Lost City of the Tayrona people, a Machu Picchu-sized pre-Colombian archaeological site set on a high rainforest-swathed ridge in Colombia’s wild Sierra Nevada mountains, was ...

Peru’s Machu Picchu — heralded as the “Lost City of the Incas” by American explorer Hiram Bingham, who rediscovered the largely forgotten site more than 100 years ago — has evolved into a tourist ...

Traces the author's recreation of Hiram Bingham III's discovery of the ancient citadel, Machu Picchu, in the Andes Mountains of Peru, describing his struggles with rudimentary survival tools and his ...

Discover the wonders of Peru’s lesser-known “lost city,” Caral. Time travel hasn’t been invented, but standing in the dusty ...

I’m here to join Intrepid Travel’s Premium Walking and Hiking in Peru, one of the tour company’s small group tours, with a ...

The sun had barely risen above the craggy peaks of the Andes when Hiram Bingham III stood on a ridge, breathless and peered down into the mist-shrouded valley below. It was July 24, 1911 and the ...

THE OLDEST LIVING CITY IN THE AMERICAS. THIS IS CUSCO, PERU, THE CAPITAL OF THE INCAN EMPIRE. IT’S ALIVE AND IT’S UP THERE AT 11,000FT. THE ELEVATION IS MORE THAN TWICE AS HIGH AS DENVER. BUT ...

Train services to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, Peru's main tourist attraction, were suspended Monday as protesting residents placed logs and rocks on the tracks, police and PeruRail said.

Time travel hasn’t been invented, but standing in the dusty desert plains off of Peru’s north-central coast, awed by the sight of a half-dozen crumbling pyramids, I’m not sure that’s entirely true.