Here’s how we’d pictured it: Marching up to Machu Picchu at dawn, triumphantly finishing a four-day, 27-mile trek to the famed Incan ruins. Here’s how it actually happened: Hobbled by a violent ...

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 ...

It's mid-afternoon, and our small group is catching its breath after slowly scaling the steep, winding trails of Peru's Colca Canyon. We sit in silence as we look over an ancient landscape of sheer ...

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 ...