The Central Highlands Features

The Central Highlands Features

• Top Reasons to Go
  

  Handicrafts: Ayacucho has retablos—three-dimensional scenes of religious and historical events. Quinua has ceramic workshops. The Mantaro... Read more

• Quecha of the Andes
  

  The Quechua are the original mountain highlands dwellers. Their traditions and beliefs have survived Inca domination, Spanish conquests, and... Read more

• Sendero Luminoso
  

  Searching for the "Shining Path" to Peru's future, from 1980 to the mid-90s, the revolutionary group Sendero Luminoso held Peru in the grip of... Read more

• Tour & Travel Agencies
  

  Ayacucho is surrounded by archaeological ruins and natural wonders, all of which can be viewed on a package tour. Morochucos Travel Services... Read more

• High Train
  

  The Central Highlands' Ferrocarril Central Andino once laid claim to being the world's highest rail route. With the 2006 opening of China's Qinghai-Tibet... Read more