Plans to reopen Machu Picchu for the 109th anniversary of its ‘rediscovery’ by Hiram Bingham have been scrapped, as coronavirus infections in Peru soar.
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The Municipality of Machu Picchu has given details of a health protocol that will be in force to prevent the spread of COVID-19 when economic and tourism activities resume in the district.
The Ministries of Culture and Foreign Trade-Tourism are working on a rapid reopening of Machu Picchu. Cusco's regional and local authorities are also involved. The site is in good condition, but no date has yet been set for the re-opening.
The Peruvian government says that the number of visitors permitted to visit Machu Picchu will be halved when the site re-opens. No date has yet been set for the re-opening.
Machu Picchu will not re-open in July as recently announced, due to concerns over increasing numbers of coronavirus cases in the area.
Machu Picchu will sharply reduce the number of daily visitors allowed once it reopens from a virus-imposed closure. The reopening is planned for July, with a limit of 675 daily visitors.
Peruvian authorities are reportedly planning to allow free access to Machu Picchu for civil servants, children, and the elderly, as part of a plan to reinvigorate tourism in the country.
Peru is beginning work on new alternative routes to Machu Picchu this year, in an effort to diversify tourism in the area and give visitors more opportunities to immerse themselves in local Peruvian culture and communities.
Peru's government promised on Thursday to protect the Machu Picchu sanctuary and other Inca ruins when building a new airport to serve the ancient civilization's capital of Cusco.
Six tourists, including a French woman, have been arrested over accusations that they damaged Peru's cultural heritage by defecating in a sacred temple at the iconic Machu Picchu sanctuary.
Five tourists accused of damaging Peru's iconic Machu Picchu site were deported to Bolivia on Thursday and barred from returning to the country for 15 years.
Millions of tourists visit Peru's Machu Picchu each year. They leave behind more than five tonnes of rubbish every day.
The Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, Peru’s Machu Picchu, and the Gingerbread Neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti are among 25 cultural heritage sites listed on the 2020 World Monuments Watch of endangered places.
Several structures at Machu Picchu suffered through at least two earthquakes as they were being built, a new study suggests. Those temblors not only damaged walls, but also triggered a sudden change in construction techniques.
Archaeologists and architects alike have long wondered why 15th century Incans built the grand citadel of Machu Picchu where they did, high in the remote Andes atop a narrow ridge in what is now Peru. One simple answer, researchers now suggest, is that that’s where building materials for the site—large amounts of already fractured rock—were readily available.
The 27-mile (43-kilometer) Inca Trail, which modern travelers can still hike from the Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu, was originally designed as a pilgrim route that spiritually prepared the Inca for arrival at Machu Picchu.
NZ writer Marcus Stickley and wife Kristi spent nine-days on Llama Path's Choquequirao-Machu Picchu trek.
The Peruvian government has been warned it must be consulted over plans to locate airport near world heritage sites that include the Inca citadel and Sacred Valley.
An alternative to Machu Picchu’s Inca Trail, this route through the southern Andes links Peru’s archaeological sites and traditional communities, following lightly trodden paths where you’ll encounter few other travellers.
The US government has warned Americans not to travel to parts of Peru, but Machu Picchu remains a safe area.
The Peruvian government and private operators are promoting alternative routes and attractions, in an effort to protect Machu Picchu and encourage tourism in other parts of the country.
A new international airport in Peru would undermine exactly what tourists are coming so far to see.
Hidden deep in the jungle of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in Colombia sits Ciudad Perdida, the "Lost City." Built by the Tairona people more than 1,000 years ago, the archaeological site only became an attraction after it was uncovered in the 1970s.
With Machu Picchu increasingly under pressure from large numbers of visitors, there are alternative destinations.
Public outcry is growing over the construction of an international airport that would ferry tourists even closer to Peru's already fragile Machu Picchu historical site.
A new airport under construction near Machu Picchu is causing huge controversy among locals and academics who fear the destruction of the ancient Inca citadel.
Peruvian archaeologists, historians and conservationists are banding together to petition against a new airport at Machu Picchu.