Peru & Bolivia Travel Blog: Expert Guides & Insider Tips 2026

This fourth annual Invita Perú gastronomic festival will take place from July 25^th through August 3^rd, with S/10 entry tickets already available through Teleticket. This year's theme is the colonial epoch, which means that you will be able to enjoy the most traditional foods, sweets, and drinks of Lima. There'll also be free classes and  outdoor concerts.

In Peru's Amazonas region, one can find what is arguably one of the country's greatest and most mysterious archeological sites: the fortified citadel of Kuélap. Visits to the oft-overlooked site have been steadily increasing over the last years. To visit Kuélap, one must head to the city of Chachapoyas, which was chosen by the popular National Geographic Traveler Magazine as one of the "50 Tours of a Lifetime". What does it take to get there, and what will you find?...

The shipbuilding residents of the small island of Suriqui on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca are planning a new and ambitious undertaking: the construction of a totora reed ship, built only with the same pre-Columbian methods these Aymara descendents have been using for the last thousand years, to sail on a trans-oceanic excursion from New York to Spain via the Canary Islands in May or June of 2014.

As part of the founding anniversary celebrations of Peru's Puno region, thousands of traditional Sikuris will gather with their Andean panpipes on the shores of Lake Titicaca to challenge La Paz, Bolivia's current Guinness World Record for largest Sikumoreno orchestra.

As of this week, you can now travel the same path that pilgrims walked half a century ago, hiking past ancient streets and temples towards the spot where one of the preeminent oracles of prehispanic Peru resided. After two years of work by archeologists, who uncovered a large tomb used for mass dog sacrifices and accompanying funereal offerings in the process, the new touristic circuit known as the Pilgrims' Route has opened in Pachacámac Sanctuary in Lima, Peru.

A regional order declared last week that the conservation, promotion, and cultural development of the last Inca bridge, Q'eswachaka, an official governmental priority. Members from the surrounding communities come together each year to rebuild this unique hanging bridge, made of braided straw, according to a laborious but festive ceremony inherited from the ancient Incas.