Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass.

Every year the last remaining Inca rope bridge still in use is cast down and a new one erected across the Apurimac river in the Cusco region of Peru. The Q'eswachaka bridge is woven by hand and ...

The Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu has astounded and confounded visitors since it was unveiled to the wider world more than ...

And remake the world they did. Rising from obscurity in Peru's Cusco Valley during the 13th century, a royal Inca dynasty charmed, bribed, intimidated, or conquered its rivals to create the ...

Cusco school painters ... a teenager on a motorbike bumps down a mossy stairway and revs over the Inca bridge where Bingham posed above his porters. That night, bedded down in a shed belonging ...

You'll likely start your journey near KM 82 along the Cusco-Aguas Calientes railway and then follow the trail's zigzagging path toward the "lost city." The three-night journey pays off with the ...

If you don't mind getting wet, visit during Cusco's summer season for unbeatable hotel prices and fewer tourists. But beware: If you have the intent of trekking to Machu Picchu, the Inca Trail ...

Begin in Cusco, the historic heartland and former capital of the Inca Empire. Spend time exploring the museums, archaeological remains and beautiful Spanish architecture. From here, travel through ...

They developed in near isolation, expanding their territory from Cusco, Peru ... their road network together. But the Inca didn't build their bridges out of metal or wood. They wove them from ...