Visiting Peru

Tourists eat at the restaurant of the PeruRail train that links Cuzco and the famous ruins of Machu Picchu, Peru, Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Peru's tourism industry is booming. Visits to Machu Picchu, Peru's top tourist destination, have more than doubled in the last decade to 800,000 people, along with the price of getting there. Cuzco now has a half dozen four- and five-star hotels. That compares with two in the early 1990's, when the city was a haven for daring travelers defying U.S. State Department warnings against the bloody Shining Path insurgency.