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Machu Picchu, the enigmatic 15th-century Inca citadel, has been a foundation of Latin American tourism ever since the controversial American historian, Hiram Bingham, laid claim to the site back in 1911. But it wasn’t until 1913 when the National Geographic journal devoted its 25th anniversary edition to the ‘Lost City of the Incas’ that its position as one of the world’s most iconic sites was cemented.

MACHU Picchu and the Amazon have long been the big guns when it comes to Peruvian tourism, and rightly so. While a cynic might argue the former is essentially a four-day slog up a hill to watch a sunrise over some ruins with the latter an impenetrable, sweltering jungle full of things that can kill you, seeing both on a 12-day whistle-stop tour more than lived up to the hype.