The Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu has astounded and confounded visitors since it was unveiled to the wider world more than ...

WHAT once was known as a lost city might today be described more accurately as an Inca Camp David. Ninety-seven years after the discovery of Machu Picchu in the Andes, the site continues to reveal ...

It's the go-to place for references to ancient South American culture. Peru's Machu Picchu stands, 2,430 metres above sea level, as a testament to Inca culture and settlements. It was thrown into ...

Machu Picchu was also likely known as Huayna Picchu to the people who lived in it. Also the name of the mountain that looms over the settlement, it’s what locals referred to the area when it was ...

Machu Picchu is not the only UNESCO site to have been disrespected by tourists in recent months. Back in November last year, tourists were reported to have defaced a 1,300-year-old Mayan temple in ...

View of Machu Picchu from above. Leopoldine Bauer/Travel + Leisure. Machu Picchu is a year-round destination, so you’re able to access the site all year long, but there are some caveats.

One of Mr. Koechlin’s employees, Joaquín Escudero, transferred from Inkaterra’s Machu Picchu hotel, where he worked as its general manager, to become general manager at Hacienda Urubamba, its ...

When an American explorer rediscovered the lost 15th-century Incan site in 1911, he called it Machu Picchu. Historical documents reveal that name is incorrect.

For decades, the ancient Incan ruins in Peru have been called Machu Picchu. But the original name was Picchu or Huayna Picchu, according to two researchers. By Maria Cramer For decades, the ...