Stand among the cloud-wrapped ruins of Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Inca citadel perched high above Peru's Sacred Valley
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
Walk among the 5,000-year-old pyramids of Caral, the oldest known city in the Americas
Walk the sculpted mud corridors of Chan Chan, the largest adobe city ever built
Set eyes on Río Abiseo, the UNESCO park almost nobody may enter — cloud-forest ruins and a monkey back from the dead
Descend into the underground galleries of Chavín de Huántar to meet the Lanzón, a 3,000-year-old fanged god
Fly over the Nazca Lines, giant desert figures etched into Peru's coastal plain two thousand years ago
Three thousand terraced evaporation pools on an Andean hillside, worked by the same families since Inca times.
Roam Huascarán National Park, the highest tropical mountain range on Earth — 660 glaciers under Peru's tallest peak
Watch the sun rise along the Thirteen Towers of Chankillo, a 2,300-year-old solar calendar in the desert
Descend from cloud forest to jungle floor in Manú, the most biodiverse protected area on the planet
Walk original paving of the Qhapaq Ñan, the 30,000 km Inca road web that once ran six countries
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