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Inca Trail & the Amazon Rainforest

Day 14 - Machu Picchu

25th August 2015

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Part 2 - Mountain rocks, building features & an idiot in a hat


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Many mountains were sacred to the Incas and they would fashion smaller versions of them within their sacred places...



Mountain rocks 1



The Sun on both the original and smaller version...
Mountain rocks 2




The results are impressive...

Mountain rocks 3



Mountain rocks 4



Dwellings and terraces...

Machu Picchu 1



The Intihautana or 'Hitching Post of the Sun' - used for the prediction of solstices...

Machu Picchu 2



Inca doorways...

Machu Picchu 3



View across the quarry to the rest of the site...
   
Machu Picchu 4



 

Machu Picchu 5


Inca dwellings..

Machu Picchu 6



Machu Picchu 7




 

Machu Picchu 8


The thatched roof would rest at an angle of 17 degrees on these protruding rocks...

Machu Picchu 9



Succession of Inca windows - not looking at a path on this occasion...
 
Machu Picchu 10



The group exploring the dwellings...

Machu Picchu 11



More llamas...

Machu Picchu 12



Views of the lower portion of Machu Picchu...

Machu Picchu 13



The same, but with some fool in a hat in the way...

Machu Picchu 14



Plus-sized catalogue pose...

Machu Picchu 15




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Day 1 - London to Amsterdam Day 2 - Amsterdam to Lima Day 3 - Lima - City & Fountains
Day 4 - Lima - Changing of the guard Day 5 - Lima to the Rainforest Day 6 - Rainforest - Macaws & Caiman
Day 7 - Rainforest - Canoe & walk Day 8 - Rainforest to Cuzco Day 9 - Cuzco
Day 10 - Inca Trail - day 1 Day 11 - Inca Trail - day 2 Day 12 - Inca Trail - day 3
Day 13 - Inca Trail - day 4 Day 14 - Machu Picchu Day 15 - Cuzco to Puno
Day 16 - Lake Titicaca Homestay Day 17 - Return to Lima Day 18 - Lima to Home