Peru

Nearly half of Peru lies within the Amazon Basin and the dense Amazon Jungle represents over 50 percent of the rain forest on the entire planet. It is an immense and, for the most ... [full story]

Museo Santuarios Andinos (Museum of Andean Sanctuaries) The small museum’s most famous attraction is the 600 year old frozen body of Juanita, the young Inca girl who was discovered in near perfect condition on ... [full story]

Characterised by its many beautiful colonial buildings built from a light-coloured volcanic stone, Arequipa is also known as the ‘White City’. Its elegant historic centre is endowed with some of the country’s finest colonial ... [full story]

Coricancha Inca Ruins Coricancha is a Quechua word meaning 'Golden Courtyard', but the Inca stonework is all that remains of the ancient Temple of the Sun, which was the most important temple in the ... [full story]

Sacred capital of the Inca Empire and known to the early Incas as the ‘navel of the world’, Cuzco is the oldest continuously inhabited city in South America. Gateway to the ancient citadel of ... [full story]