Peru Attractions

Machu Picchu - One of the New Seven Wonders

Advantages: One of the 'Must see before you die' sights
Disadvantages: expensive to get there from UK

Machu Picchu : If you were asked to write a list of places you MUST see in the world I believe this would be on most people's list. It was certainly on my list; it is a destination of a lifetime, a dream come true and one of the most fascinating archaeological finds of recent times. Everyone interested in travel recognises the picture postcard view but nothing prepares you for your own first sight of Machu Picchu when you see it for yourself the ...
...had buried the city of Machu Picchu until Hiram Bingham, assisted by local villagers from the area, uncovered it the ruins in 1911. This cover of vegetation has meant that we are able to enjoy Machu Picchu as it is today, a fairly well preserved Inca city. Machu Picchu means 'Old Peak' and the city was built on this mountain between 1460 and 1470 AD by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui. It seems a strange place to build a city because of its altitude of 8,000ft ...

catsholiday 22.11.2008 · Read full review
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Advantages: Majestic setting, fascinating relics and history
Disadvantages: Your fellow-visitors, risk of poor visibility, cost

...to look, but, despite that, Machu Picchu doesn't disappoint, because there is more to it than the photographs can replicate. For a start, they can't convey the 360° sweep of the panorama in all directions, the sense of being at the centre of a vast landscape of breath-taking majesty. Nor the changing patterns of light and shadow on the mountainsides. Nor the spine-tingling chill of the breeze. Nor the sounds of the swallows that swoop around the ...
...fellow-visitors. Machu Picchu is one of the world's most famous historic monuments, a World Heritage Site and recently acclaimed by popular vote as one of seven "New Wonders of the World", in the company of such places as the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal. Despite its remote location high in the Peruvian Andes, it attracts nearly half a million visitors a year and their presence takes its inevitable toll both on the fabric of the site itself ...

torr 30.01.2008 · Read full review
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