Yet not many people have heard of the Colca Canyon, situated some 4,422 miles away in the pre-Inca region of Arequipa, Peru.

kovgabor79/Getty Images While it's true the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu might be the most famous trek in Peru, Cañon del Colca (or Colca Canyon) is another you need to add to your list.

Like many of life’s great adventures, our trek into Peru’s Colca Canyon was born not of careful planning but from a spontaneous impulse. It was our first day in Cabanaconde, a small town ...

Like many of life’s great adventures, our trek into Peru’s Colca Canyon was born not of careful planning but from a spontaneous impulse. It was our first day in Cabanaconde, a small town ...

Most first-time visitors to Peru make a beeline for the ruins of Machu Picchu, without realizing that they are passing within a bus ride of the epic Colca Canyon. Slicing through the High Andes ...

Sunbeams spilled over snow-dusted hills into southern Peru’s Colca Canyon, sparking the morning migration of condors, earth’s largest birds of prey. At first, in that indigo hour, there was ...

Reporting from Arequipa, Peru — Some people head to Peru to ... The region also happens to be home to Colca Canyon, an Edenic gorge containing small villages and acres of pre-Incan terraces ...

Buchanan joins a team of Polish explorers in a race to the bottom of the earth on a first descent of Peru's upper Cruz del Condor section of Colca Canyon, the deepest gorge on the planet.

Within a bus ride of Machu Picchu is a fissure twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, home to soaring condors, endless trekking routes and little-altered Inca and Pre-Inca traditions. Most first-time ...