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MACHU PICCHU HISTORY
About of the Machu Picchu:
The ruins of Machu Picchu, rediscovered in 1911 by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham, are one of the most beautiful and enigmatic ancient sites in the world. While the Inca people certainly used the Andean mountain top (9060 feet elevation), erecting many hundreds of stone structures from the early 1400’s, legends and myths indicate that Machu Picchu (meaning ‘Old Peak’ in the Quechua language) was revered as a sacred place from a far earlier time. Whatever its origins, the Inca turned the site into a small (5 square miles) but extraordinary city. Invisible from below and completely self-contained, surrounded by agricultural terraces sufficient to feed the population, and watered by natural springs, Machu Picchu seems to have been utilized by the Inca as a secret ceremonial city. Two thousand feet above the rumbling Urubamba river, the cloud shrouded ruins have palaces, baths, temples, storage rooms and some 150 houses, all in a remarkable state of preservation. These structures, carved from the gray granite of the mountain top are wonders of both architectural and aesthetic genius. Many of the building blocks weigh 50 tons or more yet are so precisely sculpted and fitted together with such exactitude that the mortarless joints will not permit the insertion of even a thin knife blade. Little is known of the social or religious use of the site during Inca times. The skeletal remains of ten females to one male had led to the casual assumption that the site may have been a sanctuary for the training of priestesses and /or brides for the Inca nobility. However, subsequent osteological examination of the bones revealed an equal number of male bones, thereby indicating that Machu Picchu was not exclusively a temple or dwelling place of women.
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Peru Travel Day 3:Breakfast. Transfer to the bus station for travel to Nazca. Tranfer to hotel in Nazca. In the afternoon, tour the archaeological sites of Nazca – Chauchilla cemetery, Katalloc Geogliphs, and the underground aqueducts that demonstarate the hydrolic engineering of this culture. HotelPeru Travel Day 4:Breakfast. In the morning, fly over the Nazca Lines. These lines, whose purpose is unknown, include geometric lines and figures sucn a the hummingbird and monkey. Extremely large and created by removing the stones and topsoil to leave lighter colored soil below, they are best seen from the air.Bus transportation to Arequipa (10 hours).
Peru Travel Day 5:Reception and transfer to hotel. Afternoon tour of Arequipa, visiting thes of this World Heritage Site. Plaza de Armas, cathedral, Jesuit church and convent, San Francisco complex, colonial buildings, colonial area of Yanahuara and the Santa Catalina Convent. Hotel.
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