Forget what you know about peak season; Peru's most famous site is changing—and with it, the best time to visit Machu Picchu. Hidden from Spanish conquistadors for centuries and abandoned to the ...

Machu Picchu is a citadel that sits high up in the Andes Mountains. It has been around since the 15th century. It is a mystery to scientists and even locals. Much of the appeal for travelers to visit ...

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 ...

LIMA, Peru — The streets, hotels and restaurants around the ruins of Machu Picchu — Peru’s most famous tourist attraction — remained almost deserted Wednesday, with train service to the area canceled ...

The site covers some 80,000 acres. UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site in 1983. Dave Mason When Hiram Bingham, a young Yale professor, discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, he found a site overrun with ...

Peru's government on Wednesday backtracked on plans to outsource the sale of entry tickets to Machu Picchu to a private company, a week after protesters blocked access to the country's most famous ...

Popular tourist spot Machu Picchu is reopening on 15 February, after escalating political protests in Peru caused its closure. Train links to the Incan site were suspended in December and at the time ...

The crisis over Machu Picchu — Peru's most iconic tourist attraction — is over. Travelers can easily visit Machu Picchu again: Trains to the Incan citadel returned to service after the end of protests ...

Standoff over bus service recently stranded some 1,400 tourists and prompted authorities to deploy emergency evacuation ...