Machu Picchu spared from UNESCO endangered sites list
Machu Picchu has averted the long-feared threat of being added to UNESCO's infamous list of endangered cultural heritage sites, Cusco officials announced Monday. In a…
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UNESCO chief tours Machu Picchu and lauds the beautiful experience
The director of UNESCO toured Machu Picchu this week and judging from his reaction, the long-standing threat that the Inca citadel will wind up on the infamous endangered sites list appears to be dissipating.
The Machu Picchu Master Plan 2015-2019
After two years of preparation, the new master plan for Machu Picchu has been approved, and it portends a drastic makeover of the tourist experience at…
Refurbishing pre-Inca water channels to fix Lima’s desert water woes
Peruvians, ancient and modern, have always lived on a knife’s edge of climatic and seismic disaster. Fitting then that as global climate change threatens Peru…
Nazca Lines archaeologist faces charges for TV tour
[Originally published January 7, 2015] Peru’s Ministry of Culture plans to sack its resident archaeologist in Nazca and is pressing criminal charges against him for escorting a Japanese TV crew on an unauthorized ground tour of the iconic hummingbird geoglyph.