Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: Inca Road
In a Small Village High in the Peruvian Andes, Life Stories Are Written in Textiles
Through weaving, the women of Ausangate, Peru, pass down the traditions of their ancestors
Hailed as a Modern-Day Shangri-La, Can This Ecuadorian Town Survive Its Reputation?
Vilcabamba is an idyllic little town—and that's its problem
Handicraft Heaven: Nine Unique Gifts to Buy Along the Inca Road
Leave room in your suitcase for these irresistible items
Photographer Yolanda Escobar Jiménez Captures Ecuador's Street Scenes
Take a peek inside Jiménez's visual journals
Why Birdwatchers Flock to Ecuador
Home to the highest density of bird species per acre on Earth, the country is a birder's paradise
The Fascinating Afterlife of Peru's Mummies
From inside stone palaces and atop sacred mountaintops, the Inca dead continued to wield incredible power over the living
In Bolivia's High-Altitude Capital, Indigenous Traditions Thrive Once Again
Among sacred mountains, in a city where spells are cast and potions brewed, the otherworldly is everyday
An Astronomer's Paradise, Chile May Be the Best Place on Earth to Enjoy a Starry Sky
Chile's northern coast offers an ideal star-gazing environment with its lack of precipitation, clear skies and low-to-zero light pollution
What Endures From the Ancient Civilizations That Once Ruled the Central Andes?
To journey here is to roam through almost six thousand years of civilization, to one of the places where the human enterprise began
Why Is This Wild, Pea-Sized Tomato So Important?
Native to northern Peru and southern Ecuador, this tiny and rapidly vanishing tomato boasts outsized influence on world gastronomy
How the Inca Empire Engineered a Road Across Some of the World's Most Extreme Terrain
For a new exhibition, a Smithsonian curator conducted oral histories with contemporary indigenous cultures to recover lost Inca traditions
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