Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains is a little off the beaten path, but it is still close to several hidden gems where you ...

Machu Picchu is comprised of more than 200 individual structures, and was populated by 1,000 people at the height of the Inca ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...

The Incas revered gold as the sweat of the sun and believed that it represented the sun's regenerative powers. All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire, the Inca himself, who claimed to be ...

Sitting at over 11,000 feet above sea level, Cusco was the capital of the Incan Empire from the 12th century through the 16th century when it was conquered by Spain. Stroll the city and see ...

To the Incan eye, the landscape of their empire was riddled with shrines. Often these were inanimate objects like rocks and streams. But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks ...

The history of the Plaza de Armas stretches back all the way to the Inca Empire when it was called Huacaypata or Aucaypata. The massive square (originally twice its current size) was built as a ...

The Capacocha ritual was one of the most significant religious ceremonies in the Inca Empire. It involved sacrificing children and young women to deities and sacred places at the summits of ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...