"In my dreams I’d been to the Amazon. It was a steamy world of luxuriant foliage, beady-eyed monkeys, jewel-bright birds and improbably large insects: a place where anything could happen – and frequently did. I had such high..."
The Best Travel Writing About Peru
In addition to our collection of fabulous hotels - and their equally fabulous reviews - Travel Intelligence is built upon some of the finest travel writing on the web. So, to find a range of travel writing about Peru and general Peru travel tips, you just need to browse the selection of travel articles below...
Articles about Peru
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Secret Treasure of the Incas: Wildlife in Peru
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Rebecca Ford
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Peru
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Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu
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Machu Picchu
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The Floating Islands of Lake Titicaca
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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Peru
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Southern Andes
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Lake Titicaca
"As soon as they spy the visitors to their island a dozen children fling their small bodies at us and grabbing a hand each, drag the group back to their pre-school. There the teacher proudly shows us they can sing nursery rhymes in 10 languages. And..."
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The Tipping Point
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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Peru
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Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu
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Cuzco & Machu Picchu
"I’m ashamed to admit that I recoiled when I first clapped eyes on the couple on my flight. They were part of the tour group I was about to join. The fluoro-orange World Expeditions luggage tags were the brightest things about the pair who had a..."
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Overland Uncovered: South America
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Mark Eveleigh
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Peru
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Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu
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Cuzco
"Having backpacked through the region almost a decade ago, I was particularly excited about returning to South America, to see how an organised overland trip would compare to those days of footloose (if often undirected) solo wandering. We would be..."
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The Cotahuasi Canyon
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Dominic Hamilton
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Peru
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other areas of Peru
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Cotahuasi Canyon
"Everybody loves a good record. There's something about a ‘highest, longest, furthest, lowest, smallest, biggest' tag that immediately lends cachet and class to a person or a place. Discovery Channel has a series called ‘The 10 most...', magazines..."
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The Inca Trail
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Rob Penn
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Peru
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Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu
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Cuzco & Machu Picchu
"Marco Aragon, our guide, wringed his hands slowly before projecting a cupped paw over the cloud soaked ruins beneath us: “I believe Machu Picchu was a university,” he said purposefully, “but if you come here on 100 days, with 100 guides, you will..."
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Notes From Peru
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John Warburton-Lee
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Peru
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Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu
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Machu Picchu
"Machu Picchu Despite rapidly-growing visitor numbers, the iconic Machu Picchu remains intoxicating. Swallow the expense and stay at Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge, the only hotel within walking distance of this Inca citadel. Climb the..."
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The Lost City
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Robin Hanbury-T...
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Peru
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Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu
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Machu Picchu
"Luck can play a major part in exploration. The combination of circumstances without which the explorer would have failed; the chance remark of a local followed up on a whim; serendipity at moments when all seemed lost; these are themes which recur..."
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From on the road in Peru 2
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John Warburton-Lee
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Peru
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Southern Andes
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Arequipa
"DAY 3: ArequipaAnother beautiful day in this beautiful city. Jesuits, Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians: all competed for Arequipenan souls and built churches to stake their claim. The Jesuit church, La Compania, is architecturally..."
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Hotel Monasterio
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John Borthwick
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Peru
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Sacred Valley & Machu Picchu
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Cuzco
"In Cusco, Peru, the massive, ancient Inca masonry is so supple you'd swear the stones were woven. The ten, twelve, fifteen-sided blocks fit like plasticine, without mortar, to form ramparts that have endured the caprices of history – earthquake,..."
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