Visit Trujillo

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

Wander Arequipa's White City core, where baroque facades carved from volcanic sillar glow beneath El Misti volcano

The port on Lake Titicaca, the floating Uros islands and a homestay on Amantani.

The "museum without walls": grassy royal burial mounds, the Cheomseongdae observatory and Silla-dynasty treasures across the town.

Eat your way through Lima, South America's food capital, between colonial plazas and Pacific clifftops

Inca terraces and villages along the Urubamba between Cusco and Machu Picchu — Ollantaytambo, Pisac market and the Moray circles.

Maya ruins on a cliff above a turquoise Caribbean beach — the only ancient city built right on the sea.

Visit Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands. Cruise the UNESCO-listed canal ring (17th-century waterways with over 1,500 bridges), see masterpieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum, explore the Anne Frank House (historic hiding place during WWII), and wander the Jordaan district (picturesque streets with cafes and boutiques).