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Machu Picchu “old peak” is a 15th-century Inca site 7,970 ft above sea level. It is located in the Cusco Region of Peru 50 mi northwest of Cusco. The Incas built it around 1450, but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest.. A lot of the outlying buildings have been reconstructed. Since the site was not known to the Spanish, it is highly significant as a relatively intact cultural site. Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry stone walls and originally had thatched roofs. It was plundered for artifacts by Hiram Bingham who “discovered” it.

	A Church at Train stop and passing point.	Station at Agua Calientes	Diesel Railcar at Agua Calientes
The Town like the Wild West	Agua Calientes	The Hotel Dining room complete with genuine roosting vampire bats	Tourist Entry Point to Machu Picchu
The end of the Inca Trail	A restored Resthouse on the Inca Trail	Restored Gatehouse to Machu Picchu	Surrounding Mountains
Houses in Machu Picchu	Main Temple Machu Picchu with earthquake damage	General View Machu Picchu	Agricultural Terraces
Principal Town Gate only a loaded llama wide	Terrace Structure which includes suitable drainage	Corridor in a building, note the joints	Cupboards with joist holes
Windows all precisely the same Trapizoidal shape. The arch had not been discovered	Drains	Main Temple Wall	House Gable Ends
House Drain	Second Peak connected by narrow path	A Window of precise angle	Town Gate
Locals sliding	Llama and Baby	Stairway and defunct waterway	The "Sun Temple"
Cave Room cut into the rock	"Hitching Post of the Sun"	Copy of Skyline opposite	Main Temple, some earthquake damage
Hillsides on road up	Looking Down	Cloud Forest	Clouds roll down
Cloud Forest	Clouds coming down	Ghost Tree	Condensation
Llama Posing	"Moon Temple"	Far side of the town	Inca Bridge
Houses	Main Stairs	Begonias	Train for Cusco

	Passing stop on the single track route	Stretching into distance	Cusco Airport
Volcano Crater	Cusco from the air	Mountain Road	River cuts through the mountains
Folk group on the train	The Andes in the Distance	And another view	The Observation Car and local band.