I had long wished to visit Lake Titicaca, the largest lake, by volume, in South America that lies on the boarder of Peru and Bolivia. The beauty of the lake, the natural setting, the clear water, the ...

PUNO, Peru — In the beginning, there was a lake cradled in the mountains of a high plateau in the Andes. How it got here was simple: The universe cried, and its tears flooded the world. Mankind had ...

We had just taken a ride on bumpy roads in nondescript neighborhoods through Puno, Peru, passing markets that most tourists probably don't hanker to see, before we finally turned toward our hotel. It ...

An old legend says that at the dawn of time, Manco Cápac and Mama Ocllo, a married couple and children of Inti (the Incan sun god), emerged from the waters of the lake Titicaca to found the city of ...