Peru

Iquitos, the largest city in the Peruvian Amazon and the largest car-free city in the world, sits on the upper Amazon River where the Nanay River joins from the north, accessible only by boat or plane, with rubber-boom architecture and access to one of the most biodiverse regions on earth.

One of the world's deepest canyons at 3,270 metres, carved by the Colca River in southern Peru, famous for Andean condor sightings at Cruz del Cóndor and pre-Inca agricultural terraces still worked by Collagua and Cabana communities.

The historic heart of Lima, founded in 1535, centred on the Plaza de Armas and containing the Cathedral, Government Palace and San Francisco church with its catacombs, a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1988.

A large alpine lake at 3,812 metres above sea level on the Peru-Bolivia border, the highest navigable lake in the world, sacred to the Inca civilisation and home to the Uros floating reed islands and the weaving communities of Taquile Island.

A fifteenth-century Inca citadel on a mountain ridge 2,430 metres above sea level, built around 1450 CE and abandoned in the late sixteenth century, surviving in near-perfect condition due to its remote location and the cloud forest that concealed it for 400 years.

Hundreds of geoglyphs etched into the Nazca Desert between 500 BC and 500 AD, including straight lines, trapezoidal zones and about 70 animal and plant figures, visible primarily from the air and preserved by the extreme aridity of the desert environment.