The best antidote is coca leaves. Tuck a wad inside your cheek, moisten with saliva and swallow the drowsy juices until oblivious. Wake an hour or two later in a valley of dry stone terraces planted ...

There's more to Peru than Machu Picchu, Cusco and the Nazca Lines. Indeed, the Andean city and region of Arequipa reveal a ...

Orient-Express Hotels on April 15 will open Las Casitas del Colca, a 20-room lodge in the Colca Canyon of southern Peru. Guests will be able to select vegetables for their meals from a garden; there's ...

The volcano is exploding again. Out of the van window, a mighty plume of smoke and ash billows not too far in the distance. I’m from Melbourne — no volcanoes there — and I’m slightly unsettled. I’m in ...

“The messengers of the gods!” It’s easy to guess guide Freddy Huaracha’s favourite bird. As he speaks about the Andean condor, his voice inflects, the tone rising and falling as if following a flight.

The condor's longevity may explain why the Incas believed the birds to be immortal. One popular legend tells that when a condor starts to feel old, it will commit suicide by launching into flight from ...