Located on the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains, nearly 8,000 feet above sea level, Machu Picchu is Peru's most famous archeological treasure. Hidden by Western civilization for hundreds of years ...

Flipping through my history book in elementary school, I’d stop on the page with photos of Machu Picchu thinking, “I HAVE to see this with my own eyes one day,” without even knowing exactly where ...

In addition, view our Dispatches from Peru slideshow to see some of the highlights. Travel Weekly reporter Michelle Baran is spending two weeks in Peru. Her trip includes an Amazon River cruise and a ...

Hundreds of tourists left stranded on Machu Picchu after bus disruption - Standoff over bus service recently stranded some ...

Machu Picchu, the remains of a 15th Century Inca city, is Peru's most popular tourist destination, and a Unesco world ...

LIMA, Peru — Hundreds of unticketed tourists have been turned away from Machu Picchu this week as Peru’s famed Inca ruins reached capacity. Angry tourists blocked a bridge for two hours Monday in the ...