Skip to main content

Peru: FCDO strengthens advice as tourists stranded at Machu Picchu

Destinations
James Chapple
16 December 2022

The Foreign Office has strengthened its advice to Brits in Peru amid reports hundreds of tourists have become stranded in the Machu Picchu region of the country owing to travel disruption caused by widespread protests, blockades and curfews.

Flights to and from Cusco, which serves the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, have been affected said the FCDO

The unrest in Peru follows the ousting of president Pedro Castillo last week following his impeachment. Some of Peru’s major airports, including Arequipa and Cusco, have been closed, while tourist routes have been blocked and rail services suspended.