Literally "old mountain" in Quechua, Peru's dominant indigenous language, Machu Picchu is built into peaks more than 2,400 meters above sea level in southern Peru, where the Andes and the Amazon ...

Machu Picchu, the royal retreat of the Incan emperor Pachacuti, sits atop the Urubamba Valley in Peru. Meaning "Old Mountain ... swirl up from the Urubamba River. After the Spanish conquest ...

While Machu Picchu and all-things-Inca deservedly make ... soar via zipline through the canopy of the world’s largest rain forest, the Amazon, covering nearly half of the country; and trek ...

Peru is an ecological marvel, with much of its biodiversity stemming from the Amazon River that runs through it. Peru is one of the most geographically and biologically diverse countries in the ...