The sun rises in my right, rises above the mountains of the Urubamba Valley and the light starts to go down the hill to my left. Within minutes, the rays reach a city that was hidden for centuries. Machu Picchu appears to me, a few meters below, still empty of visitors.
Lack little for seven o'clock. Nobody organized well, but everyone who entered the ruins at opening its doors went up the winding road leading to the cabin Guardian Funeral Rock. From here we have the complete vision of the Inca city framed in a spectacular setting.
Because, if anything distinguishes this place from other Inca ruins of Peru, is the environment. Machu Picchu is located 2,360 meters above sea level on a cliff 600 meters down to the Urubamba River and surrounded by high green mountains Hiram Bingham when he arrived on the scene in 1911, and captured the magnificence of the environment. "The Incas They were, no doubt, lovers of beautiful landscapes ... Neither architecture nor the immense work of stone ... left in the visitor's mind greater imprint ineffable beauty and grandeur of the environment, "he wrote in his account of rediscovery from the city.
After the first glimpse of the morning, it's time to enter the city, stroll through its streets, up and down endless stairs, touching the finely polished stone by the Incas beds, eavesdrop answers give guides to many questions lack of response ... Because Machu Picchu is also a great mystery: no one knows, for certain, what was the function of the city, which was built in place so inaccessible. Was it a center of agricultural production ?, a haven for a king ?, home to the Virgins of the Sun, as prove the fact that 75% of human remains found were women? ... I certify that I have heard two different guides respond differently to the same question way. Therefore, travelers should seek sensations, not certainties.
And those feelings gives them wander between places with names like the Chamber of Princess, the Temple of the Three Windows, the Caregiver Resource cabin or the Temple of the Condor. Also the Intihuatana, "the post that ties the sun" almost unanimously regarded as a sundial. Machu Picchu invited to stop, sit every few easy steps, to appreciate the different perspectives, the various frames. A place where, in just a few minutes, you can go from having a sun and inclement be covered by heat clouds, fog and rain.
By midmorning they come here most of the tour groups. When the streets are crowded, it's time to stop, leaving a moment to drink at a cafe next to the entrance and rest. And now come back in the afternoon to enjoy the place again calm until closing time.
Only 2,500 people a day visit the ruins. Therefore it is advisable to buy tickets in advance for the day, either in Cuzco or on their website. In high season can be complete if you are thinking of buying a ticket from one day to the next. And do not forget also resolve how to get there: trains of Inca Rail or Peru Rail to take the traveler to the town of Aguas Calientes or Machu Picchu Pueblo, also should buy in advance. Getting to Machu Picchu is not as complicated as when Cuzco carnival 2016
Lack little for seven o'clock. Nobody organized well, but everyone who entered the ruins at opening its doors went up the winding road leading to the cabin Guardian Funeral Rock. From here we have the complete vision of the Inca city framed in a spectacular setting.
Because, if anything distinguishes this place from other Inca ruins of Peru, is the environment. Machu Picchu is located 2,360 meters above sea level on a cliff 600 meters down to the Urubamba River and surrounded by high green mountains Hiram Bingham when he arrived on the scene in 1911, and captured the magnificence of the environment. "The Incas They were, no doubt, lovers of beautiful landscapes ... Neither architecture nor the immense work of stone ... left in the visitor's mind greater imprint ineffable beauty and grandeur of the environment, "he wrote in his account of rediscovery from the city.
After the first glimpse of the morning, it's time to enter the city, stroll through its streets, up and down endless stairs, touching the finely polished stone by the Incas beds, eavesdrop answers give guides to many questions lack of response ... Because Machu Picchu is also a great mystery: no one knows, for certain, what was the function of the city, which was built in place so inaccessible. Was it a center of agricultural production ?, a haven for a king ?, home to the Virgins of the Sun, as prove the fact that 75% of human remains found were women? ... I certify that I have heard two different guides respond differently to the same question way. Therefore, travelers should seek sensations, not certainties.
And those feelings gives them wander between places with names like the Chamber of Princess, the Temple of the Three Windows, the Caregiver Resource cabin or the Temple of the Condor. Also the Intihuatana, "the post that ties the sun" almost unanimously regarded as a sundial. Machu Picchu invited to stop, sit every few easy steps, to appreciate the different perspectives, the various frames. A place where, in just a few minutes, you can go from having a sun and inclement be covered by heat clouds, fog and rain.
By midmorning they come here most of the tour groups. When the streets are crowded, it's time to stop, leaving a moment to drink at a cafe next to the entrance and rest. And now come back in the afternoon to enjoy the place again calm until closing time.
Only 2,500 people a day visit the ruins. Therefore it is advisable to buy tickets in advance for the day, either in Cuzco or on their website. In high season can be complete if you are thinking of buying a ticket from one day to the next. And do not forget also resolve how to get there: trains of Inca Rail or Peru Rail to take the traveler to the town of Aguas Calientes or Machu Picchu Pueblo, also should buy in advance. Getting to Machu Picchu is not as complicated as when Cuzco carnival 2016
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