Huaraz

Huaraz Deporte de Aventura en los Andes

A una altura de 5000 metros, el mundo desaparece. Las masas densas de queñuales retorcidos que se aferraban recientemente desde los acantilados escarpados de montaña han dado paso a matorrales dispersos que apenas se abre camino por encima del suelo. Detrás de usted son las vizcachas esquivos que hace un momento se escurrió fuera de sus escondites en las rocas y la tierra fértil, el negro de los valles más bajos ha sido borrada de la vista,

Puno and Lake Titicaca

An immense region both in terms of its history and the breadth of its magical landscape, the Titicaca Basin makes most people feel like they are on top of the world. The skies are vast and the horizons appear to bend away below you. The high altitude means that recent arrivals from the coast have to take it easy for a day or two, though those

Huaraz the roof of the world

Huaraz and The Cordillera Blanca

At an elevation of 5000 meters the world disappears. The dense stands of gnarled queñual trees that recently clung from the sheer mountain cliffs have given way to scattered underbrush that barely pushes its way above the soil. Behind you are the elusive vizcachas that a little while ago scurried out of their hiding spots in the rocks, and the fertile, black earth of the lower valleys has been erased from view, unveiling a bed of sterile rock

Lima Capital of Peru

Lima City of the Kings

Out at Ancon, now a popular beach resort just north of Lima, an important pre Inca burial site shows signs of occupation - including pottery, textiles, and the oldest - known archer's bow in the entire Americas - from at least three thousand years ago. Although certainly one of the most populous valleys in the area, the Rimac area first showed indications of true urbanization round 1200 AD with the apperance of a strong,

Puerto Maldonado Wild Life in the jungle

A remote settlement even for Peru, Puerto Maldonado is a frontier colonist town with strong links to the Cusco region and a great fervour for bubbly jungle chicha music. With an economy based on gold - panning and Brazil - nut gathering from the rivers and forests of Madre de Dios, it has grown enormously over the last twenty

Machu Picchu - empire of the Incas

Known to the incas as the "navel of the world" , cusco is still an exciting and colorful city, built by the Spanish on the remains of Inca temples and palaces, and as rich in human activity today as it must have been at the height of the empire.

Chiclayo City of Lord of Sipan

Some 770 km north of Lima, and rapidly becoming one of Peru's larger cities, Chiclayo is an active commercial centre thanks more to its strategic position than to any industrial development. Originally it was just a small annex to the old colonial town of Lambayeque, 12km north, but things have swung the other way over the last century.

Nazca and the enigmatic lines

The south has been populated as long as anywhere in Peru - for at least nine thousand years in some places -but until last century no one guessed the existence of this arid region's unique cultures, whose enigmatic remains, particularly along the coast, show signs of

Puerto Maldonado Wild Life in the jungle

A remote settlement even for Peru, Puerto Maldonado is a frontier colonist town with strong links to the Cusco region and a great fervour for bubbly jungle chicha music. With an economy based on gold - panning and Brazil - nut gathering from the rivers and forests

Iquitos and Around river Amazonas

Iquitos had its beginning in 1739 when Jesuit José Bahamonde established settlements at Santa Barbara de Nanay and Santa Maria de Iquitos on the Río Mazán. It was a particularly daunting task, as the missionaires, here faced the task of converting the fierce Iquito Indians, renowned as marksmen with their long poison