Free Wisdom Online: Machu Picchu

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I need to finish the Bolivia / Peru story before we end up going to
Russia, so I will start going through the remaining pictures briefly.
After
[Pisac](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/andes2005/entries/2006/03/07/pisac_and_the_sacred)
we made our way to Ollantaytambo by regular bus, from where we were
hoping to catch an inconvenient but cheap (US$20 each way) train to
Machu Picchu.  The tickets for that train were sold out, however, so
we ended up having to buy tickets for a more expensive train (paying a
total of about $70 for the round trip) for the next morning.  We
showed up in "the town incorrectly known as Aguas Caliente" (they now
prefer to be known as "Municipality of Machu Picchu") early next
morning (it's 1-2 hours from Ollantaytambo) and immediately took a bus
up to Machu Picchu.

<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_016_7939 Machu Picchu ruins from above
2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_030_8579 Hayana Picchu, Machu Picchu, Peru
2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_064_2750 The hut
2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_084_1687 Machu Picchu terraces
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2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_091_6785 A temple damaged by sinking ground
2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_099_3477 The Sun Altar
2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_130_9771
2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_147_2498
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2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_097_6649
2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_212_2649 A llama
2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_086_9849
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2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_128_6031 Machu Picchu
2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_155_6182
2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_230_2305 Machu Picchu at sunset
2005-12-19-b-machu-picchu-best/20051219_270_4790 Machu Picchu at sunset
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>

Machu Picchu was by far the most beautiful sight we encountered on our
trip, surpassing even the best photos of it that I had seen before.
The beauty of the place makes it easy to see why this relatively
unimportant Inca fortress has captured the imagination of the whole
world and why so many myths have been created about it.  (The history
of Machu Picchu pales in comparison with the views: it was a fortress
contstructed in 15th century by the Incas to guard the road into the
jungle.  That's pretty much all that is known about it.)

I took literally hundreds of pictures at Machu Picchu, so if you want
more, there are two more albums: [More of Machu
Picchu](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/all/albums/2005-12-19-d-more-machu-picchu/)
and [A trail to the Inca Draw
Bridge](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/all/albums/2005-12-19-c-inca-bridge/).

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