Expeditions
Choose your mystery — grouped by the regions that hold them.
Lima
The full south-coast expedition: everything in our Paracas trip — the elongated skulls, El Candelabro, the Wari Kayan necropolis, the Band of Holes — plus a third day south to Nazca to fly the Lines, walk the Cantalloc aqueducts and stand at Chauchilla's open-air mummy cemetery.
See the elongated skulls of Paracas and the real story behind the 'alien' legend, sail past El Candelabro, stand on the desert necropolis where the skulls were dug from the sand, and puzzle over the Band of Holes and the painted Inca walls of Tambo Colorado. Two days, no flights — the south coast's mysteries, told straight.
Meet the elongated skulls and mummies of ancient Peru, consult the great Oracle of Pachacamac, then enter Chilca — the desert town that's claimed UFO contact since 1974 and swears its black lagoon-mud was charged by alien craft. Oracles, mummies and flying saucers, an hour from Lima.
Cuzco
Stand before 120-tonne polygonal stones fitted without mortar. A deep look at the impossible masonry of Saqsayhuamán above Cuzco.
The precision stonework of Ollantaytambo, then the mysterious trapezoidal 'portal' carved into the cliff at Naupa Iglesia — claimed by some to be an interdimensional doorway.
Arequipa
Cross the desert from Arequipa to a hillside of some 2,600 carved boulders — dancers wrapped in zigzags that a 2024 study reads as songs made visible — then stand in the same valley over real dinosaur footprints. South America's largest rock-art field.
