Hiking to Machu Picchu has long been on my bucket list. That a 600-year-old abandoned town built by the Incans is still ...

Hiking the evocative Inca Trail to majestic Machu Picchu is one of the most famous and celebrated experiences in Peru, if not the entire world. But too often, famous translates to crowded. To manage ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). “We’ve reached the point of no return,” says my guide, Julio Llancay. It should sound ominous, but with that ever-present grin ...

SUNSET — Now back home in Sunset, Gary Bybee, fresh off his hike along the Inca Trail in Peru, wonders how he did it. "I couldn't imagine ... what I was going to go through when I first signed up for ...