Imagine standing atop an ancient mountain fortress, your entire family’s eyes wide with wonder, mist dancing around centuries-old stone walls, and the profound silence of history around you. This ...

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SCORES of Brit tourists - including dozens of schoolchildren - have been evacuated from Peru's Machu Picchu after a massive fire erupted on a nearby mountain. Youngsters on a school trip from Ormskirk ...

Built high in the Peruvian Andes on the western edge of the Amazon Basin, the Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu has astounded and confounded visitors since it was unveiled to the wider world more than ...

Dozens of British schoolchildren and hundreds tourists have been evacuated from the Andes after a huge forest fire broke out on the mountain. Pupils from Lancashire were among the sightseers forced to ...

One hundred years after it was discovered, some architectural treasures are still overlooked. On 24 July, 1911, Hiram Bingham III, a young history lecturer from Yale University, climbed a steep slope ...

Machu Picchu stands 2,430 m above sea-level, in the middle of a tropical mountain forest, in an extraordinarily beautiful setting. It was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at ...

Youngsters on a school trip from Ormskirk, Lancashire, were among 200 sightseers escorted off the trail SCORES of Brit tourists – including dozens of schoolchildren – have been evacuated from Peru’s ...