Our experienced staff has been outfitting and leading treks in the Andes for more than 25 years. Choose from our many programs, and join us on a journey into Peru’s ancient past and living cultures – travelling on foot, as the people of the Andes have always done…    

With its wild and varied scenery - from desert coast to high Andes and Amazon lowlands - Peru is a trekker’s paradise. But what makes Peru unique as a hiking destination is the fact that for thousands of years successive Andean cultures traded, communicated, migrated and fought on foot.

Until the arrival of the first Europeans in the 16th century there were no cattle or horses in South America and, because there was nothing to pull a cart or a chariot, there was no wheel. This meant that road networks developed exclusively for travel on foot; crossing high passes, descending into fertile valleys and defying the topography.

Although the Inca state of Tawantinsuyo is credited by historians with creating the most extensive highway system of the ancient world, this road system was based on those of earlier cultures stretching back to Chavin (1400–200 BC). By the height of the Inca culture, an estimated 20,000 kilometres of highways collectively known as the Qhapac Ñan linked every part of the empire with the capital Cusco.

Today there are few parts of Peru which do not boast a network of ancient trails, which means that almost wherever one decides to trek in the Andes, a trail can be found leading to typical villages, wildlife reserves or pre-Hispanic ruins.