Beyond Machu Picchu: my wild adventures in Peru As the British Museum’s blockbuster Peru exhibition opens, it’s time to explore Inca civilisation and more — including the country’s thrilling surf and exquisite cuisine
Beneath the intense Andean sun the dusty avenue lined by the jagged remains of once imposing stone and adobe walls stretches over the undulating valley floor into the distance. The purpose of this prehistoric thoroughfare remains a mystery. Andean cultures never developed writing and the dozens of surrounding crumbling houses were not just abandoned a millennium ago but even had their doors and windows filled in by their fleeing owners. Yet the scale of this heavily eroded fortified outpost of the once-great Wari empire — a culture as ancient for the Incas as…Read more …