Visit the Maras salt pans

Walk original paving of the Qhapaq Ñan, the 30,000 km Inca road web that once ran six countries

Monasteries atop soaring rock pillars.

Step onto the springy reed ground of the Uros islands, hand-woven villages floating on Lake Titicaca for centuries

Cross the last Inca rope bridge, hand-woven from grass and rebuilt by four communities every June

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

Join Peru's national ritual: charcoal-spit pollo a la brasa, fries, and the great ají sauce debate

Eat anticuchos at dusk — smoky beef-heart skewers from a street grill, Afro-Peruvian soul food

Drink chicha morada, the violet corn nectar Peruvians pour with everything — and meet its wild fermented ancestor