LIMA, Peru — Peru’s government is cutting airfares and hotel rates to draw tourists to the Incan city of Cuzco even though the country’s top tourist destination, the nearby Machu Picchu ...

An emergency personnel worker battles a forest fire in Machu Picchu, Peru. ( via REUTERS ) Machu Picchu is an ancient Inca city cut into the rock high up in the Andes.

Ruben Baldeon, town spokesman in Machu Picchu Pueblo, said bottles of water were selling for $3.50 - five times the typical price - and electricity to the town had been cut off.

Train services to Peru's historic Machu Picchu partially resumed on Wednesday following nearly three weeks of suspension caused by anti-government protests.