Machu Picchu, the royal retreat of the Incan emperor Pachacuti, sits atop the Urubamba Valley in Peru. Meaning "Old Mountain" in the Quechua Indian language, the complex was constructed in the ...

Contemporary Peruvian expert Luis Lumbreras, the former director of Peru ... Machu Picchu is nearly surrounded by the Urubamba River, which is revered by people in the region still today. The ...

“You have cystic fibrosis? I never would have guessed,” a fellow traveller told me during our trek toward Machu Picchu, Peru’s legendary Inca citadel in the middle of a mountainous ...

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 ...

You can't ride all the way to Machu Picchu but this trek through the Sacred Valley of the Incas puts you close. Here's what ...

Fly high above the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. This impressive drone ...