Peru tourism and travel information

MACHU PICCHU, Cusco – PeruHistoric Sanctuary of Machu Picchu(Santuario Historico de Machu Picchu) One of the most important and most visited PreColumbian sites in the Americas, an outstanding symbol of Peruvian national pride and Inca civilisation. The ruins are a uniquely sited royal winter retreat, religious sanctuary and mausoleum of the Inca rulers from Cuzco...Read More

Machu Picchu Almost a century after its archaeological discovery and thanks to recent studies of sixteenth century archival documents, there are good arguments to suppose that the citadel of Machu Picchu was – like the pyramids of the pharaohs in Egypt or the tomb of the emperor Chin Shi Huan in China – the luxurious...Read More

The town of Aguas Calientes  Machu Picchu pueblo Aguas Calientes is a very small town on the Urubamba River in Peru. Aguas Calientes is located in the district of Machu Picchu, province of Urubamba, department of Cusco. It is located at the western spring of the Vilcanota Mountains, bounded by the Apurimac and Urubamba rivers....Read More