La Rinconada: The World’s Highest City
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2017
High in the Peruvian Andes, far above the tree line, lies an old gold-mining camp that has, over the years, grown to the status of a city. O...
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The World’s Longest Surfing Wave at Chicama, Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2016
The small coastal town of Puerto Chicama, in northwestern Peru, is home to the longest, the most perfect, left-breaking wave in the world. H...
Sayhuite Stone: An Ancient Hydraulic Scale Model of The Inca Empire?
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2016
About 47 kilometers east of the city Abancay, in southern-central Peru, lies the archeological site of Sayhuite or Saywite, described by his...
The Ancient Aqueducts of Nazca Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2016
Dotting the landscape across the dry valleys of southern Peru, near the city of Nazca, an area famous for the mysterious Nazca lines, are la...
Moche Sex Pots
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2016
The Moche people lived in northern Peru near present-day Moche and Trujillo, between 1,900 to 1,200 years ago, long before the Inca Empire. ...
The Boiling River of Mayantuyacu, Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2016
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, in Mayantuyacu, Peru, flows a river so hot its water actually boils. The locals call it “Shanay-timpishka” wh...
Sierra del Divisor National Park, Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2016
The Sierra del Divisor region along the Peru-Brazil Border in the heart of the Amazon Basin, constitutes the world’s newest National Park, f...
The Chullpas of Sillustani
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2015
Sillustani is located 34 km northwest of the city of Puno, on the shore of beautiful Umayo Lagoon, in Peru. It is one of the many sites in t...
Chan Chan: World’s Largest Adobe City
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2015
Located near the Pacific coast in the Peruvian region of La Libertad, 5 km west of Trujillo, Chan Chan was the largest Pre-Columbian city in...
Keshwa Chaca: The Last Inca Rope Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2015
Five hundred years ago when the Incas were expanding their empire over the highlands of the Andes, they developed an incredible network of r...
