Hike Rainbow Mountain (Vinicunca)

Watch Cusco resurrect the Inca Festival of the Sun — a full-day solstice spectacle at Sacsayhuamán

Acclimatize in Cusco, the Inca capital where colonial churches stand on six-hundred-year-old stone foundations

Fly over the Nazca Lines, giant desert figures etched into Peru's coastal plain two thousand years ago

Hike to Millpu, a staircase of a hundred turquoise travertine pools hidden in an Ayacucho gorge

Stand among the cloud-wrapped ruins of Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Inca citadel perched high above Peru's Sacred Valley

Trek four days over Inca stone paths and cloud-forest passes to walk into Machu Picchu through the Sun Gate at dawn

Watch Andean condors ride the morning thermals out of Colca Canyon, twice as deep as the Grand Canyon

Roam Huascarán National Park, the highest tropical mountain range on Earth — 660 glaciers under Peru's tallest peak