Tucked away in the high Andes of Cusco, Peru, Humantay Lake (Laguna Humantay) is a stunning glacial lake known for its vibrant turquoise color and sacred spiritual significance. Fed by the snowmelt of ...

- This post may contain affiliate links. Read our disclosure. Over 100 years since American explorer Hiram Bingham unearthed the lost city of Machu Picchu in 1911, the mysteries of the Inca Empire ...

Machu Picchu has always carried an almost magnetic pull. Perched high in the Peruvian Andes, the 15th-century Inca citadel draws more than 1.5 million visitors each year.

Lost cities are mysterious. And we can all agree that they have always captured people’s imagination. Well, history is full of them. Take Pompeii, for example – it was wiped out by a volcano and left ...

Discover how twelve once-magical vacation spots have been irreversibly transformed by overtourism, leaving behind only shadows of their former glory.

But while scenes of natural beauty often feel like a given on a hike, there are some trails that also offer views of awe-inspiring archaeological sites—from caves adorned with prehistoric art to the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the September 28 edition of Sunday Life.See all 13 stories. Morning mist shrouds the Santa Teresa River as I ...

Robin Evans from Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, was just 20 when he was killed in September 2015 falling down a lift shaft in a Chinese stadium while working for the sports technology company Hawk-Eye.

From a terrifying cliff climb, to trekking in the Andes, and trying (and failing) to get a selfie with a llama, our writer Sara Wallis had an extreme adventure in Peru ...

A labour dispute involving one of the country's major rail routes has left visitors to the famed Unesco World Heritage site in the lurch ...