Stand among the cloud-wrapped ruins of Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Inca citadel perched high above Peru's Sacred Valley
Journey through Peru — Inca citadels, Amazon rainforest, Andean peaks and the boldest food scene in the Americas
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
Trek four days over Inca stone paths and cloud-forest passes to walk into Machu Picchu through the Sun Gate at dawn
Race a dune buggy up — and sandboard down — the giant dunes circling Huacachina, Peru's only desert oasis
Wander Arequipa's White City core, where baroque facades carved from volcanic sillar glow beneath El Misti volcano
Watch hundreds of macaws descend on riverside clay licks in Tambopata, one of the most biodiverse corners of the Amazon
Walk the sculpted mud corridors of Chan Chan, the largest adobe city ever built
Climb to 5,036 m for Vinicunca's striped mineral slopes — a mountain painted in seven colours
Fly over the Nazca Lines, giant desert figures etched into Peru's coastal plain two thousand years ago
Eat anticuchos at dusk — smoky beef-heart skewers from a street grill, Afro-Peruvian soul food
Descend from cloud forest to jungle floor in Manú, the most biodiverse protected area on the planet
Eat lomo saltado, the wok-flamed beef stir-fry where Canton met the Andes — fries in the dish, rice on the side
Join Peru's national ritual: charcoal-spit pollo a la brasa, fries, and the great ají sauce debate
Roam Huascarán National Park, the highest tropical mountain range on Earth — 660 glaciers under Peru's tallest peak
Sip a pisco sour — grape brandy, lime, bitters and egg-white foam — in the country that swears it invented it
Eat ceviche where it was invented — raw fish cured in minutes by lime, chilli and leche de tigre
Watch Andean condors ride the morning thermals out of Colca Canyon, twice as deep as the Grand Canyon
Sail the deep blue of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake on Earth and the cradle of Inca legend
Watch Cusco resurrect the Inca Festival of the Sun — a full-day solstice spectacle at Sacsayhuamán
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