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Machu Picchu – Peru pictures, part 12

Posted by Doreen in !Pictures, Inland Travel, Peru
Saturday, August 25th, 2007 @ 11:03 am

Machu Picchu, Perú. One of the “New Seven Wonders” of the world, see www.new7wonders.com

View into Machu Picchu toward the “guard station”, the main entrance into the city.

View into Machu Picchu from the “guard station”, showing the steep terraces on the west side which drops steeply to the river.

The “drawbridge” that we hiked along the cliff-hanging trail to see. This would easily close the back-door route to the city!

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Ollantaytambo – Perú pictures, part 11

Posted by Doreen in !Pictures, Inland Travel, Peru
Saturday, August 25th, 2007 @ 11:01 am

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Ollantaytambo, Perú, at the end of the road.

Inca terraces above the modern city of Ollantaytambo.

A water fountain on a lower level at the Ollantaytambo Ruin site.

Men in the central plaza of the modern city of Ollantaytambo waiting for the day to begin. Bill and I ate breakfast alongside the plaza after returning on the early morning train from Aguas Calientes (and Machu Picchu).

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Ruins at Pisaq – Peru pictures, part 10

Posted by Doreen in !Pictures, Inland Travel, Peru
Saturday, August 25th, 2007 @ 10:59 am

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Incan ruins just outside the city of Pisaq, Peru

Agricultural terraces, with the farmers homes above, at the Inca ruins at Pisac.

The temple of the sun at Pisac.

View down into the modern city of Pisac from the ruins high on the hillside above. This also shows the Inca terraces that cover the sides of the valley; the Rio Urubamba is visible in the bottom of the valley.

One of many water fountains that we saw in the various Inca ruins that we visited.

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Cuzco – Peru pictures, part 9

Posted by Doreen in !Pictures, Inland Travel, Peru
Saturday, August 25th, 2007 @ 10:57 am

Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire

Inca walls along an alley leading from the central plaza. These walls are constructed with the stones in straight and even lines, which indicate walls from an important or religious structure.

Inca walls still support many of the structures in the central part of the city. This wall, with its finely fitting stones in a random pattern, was constructed to withstand earthquakes.

View down into the central plaza (the Plaza de Armas) from a park on the heights above. Both the Cathedral and the Jesuit Church, La Compañia at the end of the plaza, were constructed upon the ruins of Inca palaces.

The church of Santo Domingo was built on the Inca temple of Qoricancha. This was the temple to the sun and was considered the center of the Inca empire.