Your complete guide to traveling in Peru
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Standing in Plaza de Armas as the morning light spills across Arequipa's cathedral façade, I'm mesmerized by how the volcanic sillar stone seems to capture...
Standing in Cusco's Plaza de Armas with my colleague's family last summer, I watched as her children's eyes widened at the same colonial architecture that...
When most families dream of Peruvian adventures, Machu Picchu and Cusco typically top the list. But after my third medical conference in Lima last summer,...
As a psychiatrist who's made cross-cultural exploration a cornerstone of my professional development, I've come to appreciate how travel can be both therapeutic and transformative....
The Amazon rainforest has always fascinated me as both a geological wonder and a living laboratory for human adaptation. When I decided to spend a...
The first time I glimpsed Lake Titicaca's shimmering surface from the hillside approach to Puno, I understood why the Incas believed it to be the...
The morning sun illuminates Arequipa's sillar buildings to a brilliant white as I stand in the Plaza de Armas, the majestic El Misti volcano watching...
The first time I glimpsed the Nazca Lines from above, my astrophysicist brain nearly short-circuited. These ancient geoglyphs etched into Peru's arid plateau represent one...
Standing in Plaza de Armas as the early morning light bathes the cathedral's façade in golden hues, I'm struck by how Cusco's architecture tells the...
When I tell fellow travelers I'm heading to Peru, they immediately assume I'm bound for Machu Picchu or Cusco. But after my third visit to...
Standing at the precipice of Colca Canyon, twice as deep as the Grand Canyon yet somehow less frequented by international travelers, I felt that familiar...
As I stood at the edge of the desert plateau, watching the small Cessna prepare for takeoff, I couldn't help but marvel at the engineering...
The city of Iquitos sits like a green island in Peru's northern Amazon, completely disconnected from the country's road network yet connected to the cosmos...
Nestled in Peru's central highlands at 3,271 meters above sea level, Huancayo remains one of the country's most overlooked cultural treasures. When I first visited...
G'day adventure seekers! If you've been dreaming of a road trip that delivers both heart-pounding thrills and soul-soothing ocean vibes, I've got just the ticket....
If someone had told me back in my Liverpool bus-driving days that I'd be hurling myself down massive sand dunes on a waxed board at...
There's something profoundly humbling about witnessing Earth's most extreme environments within a single journey. As a surgeon, I'm trained to identify contrasts—the subtle differences between...
I've driven buses on three continents, but nothing prepared me for the sheer magnificence of Peru's Sacred Valley. While Machu Picchu gets all the glory—and...
When my manufacturing company sent me to Lima for a supplier conference last fall, I immediately recognized the opportunity to extend my stay and finally...
G'day, fellow adventurers! There's something absolutely magical about falling asleep to the gentle rocking of water beneath you, or waking up to the symphony of...