Peru

Peru's capital on the Pacific desert coast - 11 million people, colonial UNESCO core, Larco Museum, and the restaurants that lead the World's 50 Best.

Peru's White City of sillar stone at 2,335 m below volcanoes El Misti, Chachani and Pichu Pichu. UNESCO colonial centre, Santa Catalina Monastery and gateway to Colca Canyon.

Peru's high Andes former Inca capital at 3400 metres - precise stonework, colonial layers, and the gateway to Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley.

The 15th-century Inca citadel at 2430 metres above the Urubamba River, built by Pachacuti, never found by the Spanish, and rediscovered in 1911.