Walk among the 5,000-year-old pyramids of Caral, the oldest known city in the Americas
Descend into the underground galleries of Chavín de Huántar to meet the Lanzón, a 3,000-year-old fanged god
Set eyes on Río Abiseo, the UNESCO park almost nobody may enter — cloud-forest ruins and a monkey back from the dead
Visit Marcahuasi, a 4,000 m plateau of giant stone faces that stare back
Stand under the chullpas of Sillustani — pre-Inca burial towers built finer than the Incas managed
Watch the sun rise along the Thirteen Towers of Chankillo, a 2,300-year-old solar calendar in the desert
Hike to Millpu, a staircase of a hundred turquoise travertine pools hidden in an Ayacucho gorge
Walk the ghost settlement of Santa Bárbara, the colonial mercury mine they called 'the mine of death'
Cross the last Inca rope bridge, hand-woven from grass and rebuilt by four communities every June
Hike through cloud forest to Gocta, a 771-metre double waterfall the wider world only learned of in 2005
Earn the impossible turquoise of Laguna 69, a glacial lake under the white walls of the Cordillera Blanca
Explore Kuélap, the walled cloud-fortress of the Chachapoya — older than Machu Picchu and nearly empty
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