There are reports that 'hundreds' of Australians are stranded due to floods and mudslides in Peru.
The disaster has killed at least seven people and trapped more than 2500 foreigners visiting the ancient Inca Machu Pichu ruins.
According to reports from the ABC, Australian tourists are receiving little or no information on the situation.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said earlier reports that an Australian had been killed were incorrect.
"The journalist who originally reported that an Australian had been killed has since told the Australian Consulate-General in Lima that he made an error and that the victim was actually an Argentinean", a DFAT spokesperson said.
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But the latest reports tell of chaos on the ground.
Aussies 'stranded'
"We are completely stranded in Aguas Calientes and are getting little to no news on when we can leave," one Australian couple told the ABC.
"People are dying in landslides all around us and the Peruvian government won't let US and Argentinian choppers land to help people.
The spokesman said tour operators were understood to be making alternative transport arrangements for those people.
"There are literally hundreds of Aussies here", the ABC reported the couple as saying.
"We are by far the biggest nationality stuck here aside from Argentinians possibly, and we are getting no help from the consulate or embassy", they claimed.
"People have been trying to walk out along trails and they have died.
"An Argentinian girl and a tour guide died in a landslide in the exact place where we camped on the last night of our trail.
Australians unable to leave the affected area are advised to call DFAT's consular emergency centre on +61 2 62613305.
Peruvian authorities have organised an airlift evacuation of foreigners from the area, AFP reported from Lima.
