• Tour Peru's diverse and historic landscape.incas city wall in peru image by Galyna Andrushko from Fotolia.com
  
  Featuring wildly diverse terrain from the Pacific coastline and the Amazon River basin to the towering peaks of the Andes Mountains, Peru provides a multitude of interesting and adventurous tours. From the ancient to the simply beautiful, a tour of Peru will reward your efforts. Start in the capital of Lima, and you will find many tour operators willing to help you discover Peru's wonders.
  
  

Machu Picchu

• Discovered in 1911 by an unsuspecting American explorer, "the lost city of the Incas" sits perched in the middle of a cloud-shrouded, lush jungle, high above the Urubamba River valley. Once the cultural center of Incan worship and home to an advanced astronomical observatory, the ruins of Machu Picchu are a Peruvian historical gem. Defined by separated, terraced agricultural zones and urban sectors consisting of tombs, temples and market square remnants, Machu Picchu is one of the most popular tour destinations in Peru.
  
  

Nazca Lines

• Covering fifty square miles of remote desert, the mysterious Nazca Lines date back over 2,300 years. Best viewed from a tour that will glide along at 1,500 feet overhead, the Nazca Lines produce more questions than can possibly be answered by the pilot. Visual representations of a hummingbird, condor, spider and monkey--up to 984 feet in length---yearn for answers as to how they were created and to what purpose an ancient civilization would have created them. The arid environment has served to preserve this UNESCO-declared Mankind Heritage Site.
  
  

Huascaran National Park

• Red-tiled roofs dot the landscape of Huaraz, a gateway village to the Huascaran National Park. Nestled in a 124-mile long valley in the Peruvian Andes mountain range, Huascaran National Park is home to the world's highest tropical mountain range. Split by the Santa River, the twin chains of Cordillera Blanca and Cordillera Negro provide tourists with a bountiful opportunity of adventure tourism. Set against some of the most rugged and beautiful backdrops Peru has to offer, Huascaran National Park boasts 663 glaciers, 269 lakes, 41 rivers and 26 mountain peaks in excess of 19,500 feet. Established in 1975, the park provides tourists with memorable rafting, hiking and mountaineering opportunities.