Category: Travel News

The Peruvian slingshot spider weaving its web.

An Amazon acrobat: New video footage of the slingshot spider

Watch this new video footage of the slingshot spider deploying Spiderman-like acrobatics to catch its food.

Ollanta Humala, president of Peru, holding the FIFA World Cup Trophy.

Football fever: The FIFA World Cup trophy makes a stop in Peru

The famed FIFA World Cup trophy has touched down in Lima for 72 hours.

Experience Imagination, South America adventure film, Peru For Less

New travel film receives stellar reviews

Check out what viewers and travel industry followers are saying about the new short-film, Experience Imagination: In South America.

Food served in a ceramic bowl at Astrid y Gaston restaurant in Lima.

Lima restaurant ranks in World’s 50 Best Restaurants List

Astrid y Gastón, a top-ranked restaurant among locals and visitors alike, recently received an international culinary nod.

A couple looking out at the ruins of Machu Picchu.

Machu Picchu Awarded Best Green Destination

UNESCO World Heritage site Machu Picchu has been recognized as the leading green destination in South America for 2010.

Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel Prize-winning author from Peru.

Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Prize

Much to the delight of Peruvians and Latin Americans everywhere, the famed writer Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this morning.