Peru

Images of Peru: Nazca Lines from the air, condors wheeling over Colca Canyon, glorious Machu Picchu. Classic icons set in a rugged land. Some visitors are surprised, then, to encounter some of the Amazon’s richest jungle experiences are here too: the macaws and parrots gathering around a clay lick is as joyously colourful a sight, as wildly cacophonous a treat, as any Incan market in Cusco or Pisac. Elsewhere, the islands dotting vast Lake Titicaca – absurdly clear light, impossibly high altitude, lost-in-time cultures – are unforgettable, and the Inca Trail, a tough, rugged, inspiring trek, is one of the world’s great walks. Or head north, to trek in Peru’s northern Cordillera, the highest tropical mountains in the world, where solitary splendour and widescreen panoramas await.

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  Visiting a clay lick

  

  On the water in the Amazon Basin

  

  Peru Trekking Machu Picchu

  

  Peru Local

  

  Peru Machu Picchu Llama

  

  Peru Machu Picchu Finished

  

  Peru Blankets

  

  Peru Women in Cusco

  

  Peru Shopping

  

  Peru Local Kids

  

  Peru

  

  The perfect pisco sour?

  

  Take in sunrise at the Sun Gate, Machu Picchu

  

  Peru’s Northern Cordilleras

  

  Flying over the Nazca Lines

  

  Sample ceviche in Lima

  

  At home on Lake Titicaca

  

  Dead Woman’s Pass on the Inca Trail

  

  Cusco Fiestas

  

  Catch the condors of Colca Canyon

  

  Arequipa’s Cathedral

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  Peru leaders

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