Note: Part one of four in a series. Choquequirao is a former Inca village and ceremonial area located in the Salkantay Mountain Range. Today it is an Inca ruin site rival in majesty to that of its ...

CHOQUEQUIRAO, PERU — I’m seated cross-legged on a narrow terrace thousands of feet above the raging Apurimac River, the jagged silhouettes of the Peruvian Andes before me, the glowing stones of a 15th ...

Dawn had just broken, and the lost city of the Incas lay empty -- not a tourist in sight. From the priests' district, the high point of the ruins, the bright green central plaza stretched along the ...

Choquequirao, like its "sister city" Machu Picchu, sits in the lush hills of Peru. wikicommons The ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu is Peru's most popular tourist attraction and a major foreign ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The iconic 15th century Inca citadel Machu Picchu attracts more than a million visitors a year to the cloud forests of southern Peru.

The streets of Cusco, where travelers congregate before embarking on tours of Peru's famous Inca citadel, Machu Picchu, are plastered with posters depicting the sacred city. When I arrived here in ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. Machu Picchu has become a travel buzz word of late with every discerning traveller making ...