Visit Paracas

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.

Ancient desert city of windcatchers.

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

Race a dune buggy up — and sandboard down — the giant dunes circling Huacachina, Peru's only desert oasis

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

Watch hundreds of macaws descend on riverside clay licks in Tambopata, one of the most biodiverse corners of the Amazon