Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

A mysterious pre-Incan ruin believed to have miraculous healing powers.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.