Machu Picchu - Lost City of the Incas
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| The Sacred Rock |
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| Entrance Gate |
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| Way high in the mountains |
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| Classic Money Shot... |
One of the last "wonders of the world" still on my bucket list: Machu Picchu - finally!
The day began quite foggy, as we started early our journey back in time. It was nice to be on of the first visitors - so we had the place almost on our own with our guide. As this is hard core raining season, we were already very lucky that it did not rain, even better - later that morning the sun broke trough the clouds. We ended up doing the tour two rounds. This is a truly dramatic city situated high in the mountains, with terraces between two prominent peaks. From every angle the view is different and more enchanting it seems. The (Sun) temples in really good condition with the famous Inca walls. Luckily for us the Spaniards did discover it and only in 1911 it was "rediscovered" by Hiram Bingham, from Yale university. No wonder that Yale still has more then 36.000 artifacts of MP (and that the Peruvian Government want them back by 2012).
Funny thing is that the whole thing reminds you a little bit of the pyramids of Egypt, although they were more then 4.000 years earlier. You think the Inca are an ancient tribe, but in fact we are talking about around 1500 - the time Gutenberg invented the book printing and Europeans were conquering the world. The Incas did not know the wheel or even a writing language. So they were pretty behind... Which is nice, because that's why we have MP! :-)))
