The condor's longevity may explain why the Incas believed the birds to be immortal. One popular legend tells that when a condor starts to feel old, it will commit suicide by launching into flight from ...

O Cânion do Colca, no sul do Peru, é considerado o mais profundo do mundo, com até 5 mil metros do topo das montanhas nevadas até o leito do rio. Essa profundidade é mais do que o dobro do Grand ...

Simon Parker is a multi-award-winning travel writer and filmmaker, and The Telegraph’s cycling expert who has reported from over 100 countries. He has written three books on bicycle touring with a ...

For those who like the unconfined outdoors, Peru's Colca Canyon is a wonderland, finds Taryn Stenvei. The volcano is exploding again. Out of the van window, a mighty plume of smoke and ash billows not ...

“The messengers of the gods!” It’s easy to guess guide Freddy Huaracha’s favourite bird. As he speaks about the Andean condor, his voice inflects, the tone rising and falling as if following a flight.

One of the geographical features that attracts the world for its particular natural beauty are the canyons created by the riverbed, and formed by a process of excavating the earth over thousands of ...

Within a bus ride of Machu Picchu is a fissure twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, home to soaring condors, endless trekking routes and little-altered Inca and Pre-Inca traditions. Most first-time ...

The volcano is exploding again. Out of the van window, a mighty plume of smoke and ash billows not too far in the distance. I’m from Melbourne — no volcanoes there — and I’m slightly unsettled. I’m in ...