Visit Huaraz

Climb to 5,036 m for Vinicunca's striped mineral slopes — a mountain painted in seven colours

Cross a 4,630 m pass beneath Salkantay's glaciers on the wilder, permit-free trail to Machu Picchu

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 adobe city of Chan Chan, the Huacas of the Sun and Moon and the surf at Huanchaco.

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

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