A few years ago, images of Rainbow Mountain in Peru began infiltrating my Instagram feed. The photos showed an above-the-treeline slope that looked like someone had dumped buckets of gold, pink, and ...

The Urubamba River flows through Peru’s Sacred Valley, one of the most historically and naturally significant regions of the Andes. Surrounded by towering green mountains and mist-covered peaks, the ...

Ever seen a city floating above the clouds? That’s Machu Picchu. Terraces climb the mountains like giant green staircases, and stone temples peek through the mist. Built by the Incas without a single ...

High up in the mountains of Peru’s Amazonas region, in the 1,000-year-old city of Kuélap, archaeologists have unearthed a unique tower tomb with a set of bones buried inside. The discovery was made at ...

The team suspected that “these birds were wild-caught in the rainforest, transported alive across the Andes, and kept in ...