La cordillère Blanche

Crossing the Nazca desert, you'll likely notice greyish lines running across this red expanse. Seen from the ground, you might take them for one of nature's anomalies and carry on your way.Take to the air, and the lines suddenly take shape, intersecting to form animals, insects and plants — shapes so large they can only be appreciated from above. Some stretch for several dozen metres. There ...

At the Maras salt pans, travel back in time and study the natural Inca salt terraces on the slope of Mount Qaqawiñay, from which you'll take in a striking Andean landscape. The Incas discovered that salt water flowed down the slope and began digging small basins of 5 m² each, allowing the water to sit and evaporate, leaving only the salt behind. Fed by channels, these basins are still used for ...

“Machu Picchu threatened by a new international airport,” read a headline in Courrier International on 17 May 2019: “The opening of a new international airport in Peru could endanger Machu Picchu, symbol of Inca civilization. Historians and archaeologists fear irreversible damage to a monument already under strain.”It's hard to believe. The Inca citadel was listed as a UNESCO ...