Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is one trek you shouldn't miss. kovgabor79/Getty Images While it's true the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu might be the most ...

It's mid-afternoon, and our small group is catching its breath after slowly scaling the steep, winding trails of Peru's Colca Canyon. We sit in silence as we look over an ancient landscape of sheer ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Comrades on the Colca: A Race for Adventure and Incan Treasure in One of the World’s Last Unexplored Canyons,” by Eugene Buchanan (Independent Publishers ...

Photographer’s description: A Peruvian family with their baby alpaca, sitting by the side of the road just above Chivay, Peru, at the head of the Colca Canyon. The family was selling hats, blankets ...

Colca Canyon stretches across the heart of southern Peru, carving a dramatic path through the Andes Mountains. Known as one of the deepest canyons on Earth, its immense scale is softened by ancient ...

Everyone knows about Machu Picchu. It's iconic, it's breathtaking, and it's the reason most people buy a plane ticket to ...

“The messengers of the gods!” It’s easy to guess guide Freddy Huaracha’s favourite bird. As he speaks about the Andean condor, his voice inflects, the tone rising and falling as if following a flight.

There’s more to Peru than Machu Picchu, Cusco and the Nazca Lines. Indeed, the Andean city and region of Arequipa reveal a surprising wealth of lesser-known but equally compelling locations. The ...

Ruins didn’t interest me. I’d happily leave Machu Picchu to its thousands of daily visitors. What piqued my interest about hiking in Peru was raw geology. The country sits on the collision line of two ...