Acclimatize in Cusco, the Inca capital where colonial churches stand on six-hundred-year-old stone foundations
Eat your way through Lima, South America's food capital, between colonial plazas and Pacific clifftops
Wander Arequipa's White City core, where baroque facades carved from volcanic sillar glow beneath El Misti volcano
A living Inca town with its original street grid and terraces, the train station for Machu Picchu.
The trekking capital of the Cordillera Blanca: Laguna 69, the Santa Cruz trek and Huascaran.
Boats to the Ballestas islands of sea lions and penguins, and the desert reserve next door.
The base for Kuelap, the cloud-forest fortress, and the Gocta waterfall.
The adobe city of Chan Chan, the Huacas of the Sun and Moon and the surf at Huanchaco.
The port on Lake Titicaca, the floating Uros islands and a homestay on Amantani.
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