How I Traveled Solo to Peru to Visit Machu Picchu (with Pictures!)
by Jenell Diegor
Every year a quarter of a million well-healed, well-read travellers take the holiday of a lifetime to the Galapagos. To feed the book-buyers on this annual pilgrimage, there are a lot of beautifully illustrated guides to the fauna of the islands on the shelves, but very little about the scurrilous human adventurers who also passed this way. John Hickman presents an intriguing cast of characters, from Incas to whalers, pirates to Robinson Crusoes, the original Swiss Family Robinson and the revere...
This is the most up-to-date book on visiting Machu Picchu, Cusco, and the Sacred Valley available, period. VIVA is the one guide you'll need to get the most out of your trip to Machu Picchu and the Inca empire. Written by Cusco experts, in this book you can: explore Machu Picchu using the self-guided tour and color map. Go beyond sightseeing and truly understand the ruins and Inca culture. Trek the Inca Trail or one of the many Inca Trail alternatives while having a minimal impact on the environ...
A stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride—the wildest—down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles across Peru and Bolivia, ending up in a channel to nowhere, a dead end so flooded there is literally no land to stand on. Their raft—a mere four logs—separates them from the piranha-and-caiman-infested water unti...
Moon Cusco & Machu Picchu (Moon Handbooks)
by Ross Wehner and Renee del Gaudio
Former Peru residents Ross Wehner and Renee del Gaudio cover the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the city of Cusco, and Peru's most popular destination, Machu Picchu. The husband-and-wife team offer their seasoned advice on can't-miss attractions, and offer unique trip ideas such as The Seven-Day Best of Cusco and Machu Picchu. Complete with tips on shopping in Pisac, hiking Huayna Picchu, and exploring the legendary "Lost City of the Incas," Moon Cusco and Machu Picchu gives travelers the tools the...
When you fill up your car, install your furniture or choose a wedding ring, do you ever consider the human cost of your consumables? There is a war raging in the heartlands of Peru, waged on the land by the global industries plundering the Amazon and the Andes. In Saweto, charismatic activist Edwin Chota returns to his ashaninka roots, only to find that his people can't hunt for food because the animals have fled the rainforest to escape the chainsaw cacophony of illegal logging. Farmer Maxima...
La Tierra de Los Incas (Ediciones del Traductor, #2)
by Hiram Bingham
Peru Travel Guide (Lonely Planet Peru) (Country Guide)
by Lonely Planet
