Refurbishing pre-Inca water channels to fix Lima’s desert water woes
Peruvians, ancient and modern, have always lived on a knife’s edge of climatic and seismic disaster. Fitting then that as global climate change threatens Peru…
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Nazca Lines archaeologist faces charges for TV tour
[Originally published January 7, 2015] Peru’s Ministry of Culture plans to sack its resident archaeologist in Nazca and is pressing criminal charges against him for escorting a Japanese TV crew on an unauthorized ground tour of the iconic hummingbird geoglyph.
Bus ride up to Machu Picchu hiked, AGAIN!
The round-trip bus fare between Aguas Calients and Machu Picchu is about to increase for foreign tourists more than 26%, from $19 to $24.
Fertur wishing all holiday cheer and a joyful new year
Best wishes for a happy New Year filled with health, happiness, and lots of spectacular travel
Greenpeace demonstration at Machu Picchu ahead of COP20
Greenpeace activists sneaked giant banners into Machu Picchu on the eve of today’s UN Climate Summit (COP20) in Lima and unfurled a message urging world leaders to quickly phase out biofuels and adopt a new course toward 100% renewable energy by 2050.