There is a powerful and primal urge in many of us to leave the pavement and seek the horizon on foot. Forget crowded city ...

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Clinging on to the side of a vertical cliff, 980ft high, I tried desperately not to look too far up or down – either view was terrifying. I’d not been in Peru for very long before I found myself ...

Around 900 tourists who were visiting the 15th-century Inca marvel Machu Picchu in Peru earlier this month were left stranded during protests that interrupted train service, according to The Guardian.

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High in the Andes, near the gates of Machu Picchu, a wave of unrest in mid-September left hundreds of visitors stranded at Peru’s iconic Inca ruins while exposing long-simmering tensions between ...

Tourists and travelers board a train leaving the station in Machu Picchu Pueblo, Peru, on January 27, 2024, most of them having remained stranded since a general strike. FILE PHOTO/Agence ...

Protesters who blocked access last week to the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu have ended their protest movement after locally-owned companies were granted the right to transport tourists to the ...

Machu Picchu is Peru’s top tourist attraction and one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. But protests over bus contracts left hundreds of visitors stranded last week, with trains and roads blocked ...

The iconic Inca citadel crowning the Andes, Machu Picchu, may risk losing its spot on the list of New 7 Wonders of the World, unless Peruvian authorities sort out the mounting problems related to the ...

Machu Picchu, the famous Inca city high in the Andes of Peru, has been one of the New Seven Wonders of the World for nearly 20 years. Now, the Swiss group New7Wonders, which organised the vote in 2007 ...