Peru & Bolivia Travel Blog: Expert Guides & Insider Tips 2026

The little town of Nazca is in the news this week thanks to two fortuitous events: sandstorms which swept up a layer of sand from the desert floor, and an eagle-eyed pilot who spotted newly exposed Nazca lines which include a nearly 200ft long snake, a very long zigzag, a giant bird, and some camelids which appear to be llamas....

Arequipa is currently in the middle of a month-long celebration of the city's 474^th anniversary. During this period, a hundred thousand visitors are expected to visit. As part of the events...

Nazca's arid climate has preserved a range of intriguing artifacts, including textiles and ceramics with intricate, mythical designs & millennia-old mummies. Among these, one finds the subterranean Cantayoc Aqueducts, which, more than a thousand years after their construction, are still providing water to transform parched ground into a fertile valley. A

After an impressive campaign by the 6 countries which it unites, the Incan Qhapaq Ñan (Quechua for Royal Road) has been added to Unesco's list of World Heritage sites. Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador all cooperated to present what's commonly known as the Inca Trail as a candidate.

The Festival of the Virgin of Candelaria is celebrated in Copacabana twice a year, on Feb 2^nd & Aug 5^th. It's marked by folkloric parades with live music and vibrantly costumed dancers, religious processions combined with drunken street parties and feasting, shamans selling fortunes along streets lined with new vehicles festooned with streamers and presented for blessing with beer. It's a fun and fascinating time to be a tourist in Copacabana!

The Wall Street Journal has ranked Lima Peru as one of the world's top cities to visit, in recognition of a rising popularity thanks in part to a lauded and innovative cuisine and an architectural jumble of modern highrises and colonial buildings dotted with the odd pre-Columbian pyramid shrine. Unfortunately, many travelers to Peru skip Lima in their eagerness to fit in all the country's mega-attractions such as Machu Picchu. Don't make the same mistake!