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For the better part of a year, I had been eagerly counting down the days until I would embark on my eclipse trip through Peru and Chile. The adventure, sponsored [...]

According to physician Brian Medernach, Catholic doctors have a responsibility to live out the gospel through their work in health care.For Medernach and his wife, Antoinette Lullo, living out the [...]

INTO THE ANDES HUAYHUASH CIRCUIT, PERU With six peaks taller than 19,000 feet, the Cordillera Huayhuash should be on any list of the world's great ranges. But the nearby Cordillera [...]

Rainforest conservation has long focused on pristine jungle and the role that indigenous communities can play in protecting it. Geordie Torr visits a new project in Manu, Peru, that's challenging [...]

IT'S A FACT WE LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN: WATER RUNS downhill. It collects in low-lying areas, forming wetlands. Generally speaking, it is there that waterfowl--and waterfowl hunters alike--spend favored days of [...]

Byline: ERIN FLORIO photograph by ODDUR THORISSON A ROOM WE LOVE The sunlit Elsa, one of three bedrooms in Venice's villa-style Casa Flora, has soft-pink walls and plenty of indoor [...]

A fleeting roadside scene in Lima, Peru, sticks in my mind. A very little girl, perhaps four, stood on a narrow traffic island bisecting a congested thoroughfare amid choking dust, […]

IN LATE OCTOBER I TOOK A TRIP to the highlands of Peru, and I never would have imagined how profound and lasting the impact of the journey would be. As [...]

It lay hidden for centuries, high up the Andes Mountains, in the cloud forest of Peru. Then, about a year and a half ago, I heard that local settlers had [...]

PERU Say the word to anyone and, nearly unanimously, one image will pop into their minds--that of the lost city of Machu Picchu. Nearly everyone knows something about the famous [...]

From the mystical ruins of Angkor Wat to the Down East charm of coastal Maine, we've unearthed six destinations that are sure to spur top performers to new feats. Send [...]

Not everyone has a story that exemplifies his life, but Wade Davis does. It's, the story of the run. // Four years ago, Davis went back to Peru. He's been […]

India INDIA--STRETCHING 2,300 MILES FROM north to south--is so vast it has almost every kind of landscape imaginable. It has the stunning Himalayas, the world's highest and youngest mountains. In [...]

Peru has seen the rise and fall of various civilisations and empires--from the sun-worshipping Incas to the Spanish conquistadors--all of which have shaped its landscape and the lives of its [...]

Deep in the highland valleys of Peru's majestic Cordillera Blanca, thousands of metres above sea level, peasants are already in the fields or on the roads hours before the sun [...]

In May '04, my wife, Jean, and I and friends Cass and Marlene Candell embarked on a wonderful private tour of Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca and the Manu Wildlife Reserve […]

A brief review on a mountain bike travel to Peru in South America with reference to the scenic beauty, rivers, forests, Amazon basin, the nightclubs, and others is conducted. A description of each place with its special feature and significance is presented.

Spectacularly sited in the Peruvian Andes is an ancient city of the Incas, long shrouded in mystery. If this much of the story sounds familiar, the name of the city, [...]

From a treetop deep in the jungles of Peru, a tiny brown monkey stares down at me with curiosity. I aim my binoculars and stare back into his intense, dark [...]

As our horses climbed the steep, dusty trail, I wondered who was weariest, the humans or the animals. The horses were stumbling on the slippery rocks and the mules had [...]

The pre-Columbian empire has always fascinated me, and it was my plan in 2001 to trek for a week in Huascaran National Park and then take the Inca Trail to […]

THERE IS NO ROAD TO MACHU PICCHU. TYPICALLY, there are two ways to get there: by narrow-gauge train, whose tracks snake along the bottom of the six-thousand-foot-deep Urubamba River Canyon, [...]

Peru...with a touch of class (First of two parts) Attracted by the numerous reported changes taking place in Peru since a previous visit 81/2 years ago, in August 2001 I [...]

The following are candid appraisals of some of the tours ITN readers have taken in the last year or so. Where possible, for comparison's sake, different readers' appraisals of a [...]

Getting there Our trip to explore the upper Amazon was arranged through International Expeditions for $2,898 per person, double occupancy, including airfare from Miami, a hotel in Lima for one [...]

IT's a study in charcoal, yellow and indigo. Black hills, blazing swathes of golden yellow grass, sky an unbelievably deep hue. We are nearly 4,000 metres high, way above the [...]

Anytime I build up travel expectations sky-high, I prepare myself for disappointment. Such was the case as I boarded the plane in Miami last April. I was part of a […]

(First of two parts on Peru) Embarking at the frontier town of Iquitos and traveling upriver in the darkness against the powerful current, we could sense the beginning of a […]

International Expeditions has reported three new small-group adventures for 2017, adding options in Brazil and Peru, as well as one tour combining Argentina and Chile. According to a media release, [...]

Byline: -ANDREW SESSA Forces of Nature Four new retreats bring extreme luxury to the middle of nowhere. TANZANIA At nearly 9,000 feet, Asilia Africa's month-old Highlands is the highest safari [...]

PDK International CEO Joshua Starr will lead the organization's next study trip: a 10-day service learning tour in Peru from July 18-27, 2016. This trip will blend professional development, cultural [...]

Beset by ongoing political and economic problems, not the least of which was a stunning hostage crisis in 1997, Peru nevertheless welcomed more visitors last year than ever before. Peru [...]

The cradle of the Incas, Peru is South America's archeological paradise, with world-famous destinations including the legendary Machu Picchu, historic Cuzco and scenic Lake Titicaca. Peru's allure also lies in [...]

A journalist who visited Peru after the liberation of the hostages held in the Japanese embassy in Lima noted the excitement and pride that the daring rescue inspired among ordinary citizens. The visit was also made memorable by the journalist's participation in an international conference on freedom of expression where he heard radio journalist Jesus Alfonso Castiglione Mendoza talk and met with Caretas editor Enrique Zileri.

A trailer camper's experience touring South America using an Alpenlite trailer attached to a Chevrolet pickup is narrated. The first three countries that the camper visits are Colombia, Ecuador and Peru., Editor's Note: Braving 15-percent grades, washed-out bridges, rock slides and under-sized ferries, Betty and Bob Korthuis covered 32,000 miles around the continent of South America with their Chevrolet truck and [...]

I was going to take a picture of some groups of regal, branched cactus along the hillsides, but within 10 minutes there were no more. And so it went as […]