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As beautiful as these pictures are, they cannot capture the grandeur of Machu Picchu. You can feel your body being invigorated from the energy of the place just driving up in the bus. This mountain is to the south and is called Huayna Picchu.
A view back on the switchbacks that the bus takes.
In the foreground are some of the terraces for agriculture. In the middle is the area known as the industry area. In the background is the mountain to the south.
The Temple of the Sun and the Royal Tomb is the circular structure in the middle.
The terminator of the irrigation line at a well.
The Royal Tomb.
At the base of the Royal Tomb.
Here is an irrigation line.
Across the main square, which also functioned as an auditorium for making speeches and proclamations.
Here is Hank from our group, showing off the architecture of the thatched-roof houses. Note the square protrusions where the cross-members sit, and the round protrusions where the ropes tie them onto the frame.
The classic shot across the city.
Reclaiming some mountainside as crop terraces.
The Temple of the Three Windows.
The Sun Gate is indiated by the "S". The red dot is the start of the trail up to the Sun Gate.
Luis explaining how the sun coming through the window hits this half of an Inca cross, and creates a whole one with the stone plus its shadow.
Not your normal picture of a farm.
The agriculture center to the right, and the bus switchbacks in the background.
This rock is carved to represent Huayna Picchu in the background.
Inthuatana, the sacred rock which is the center of the energy vortex.
This mountain to the north is actually the mountain named Machu Picchu.
The sacred rock with Huayna Picchu in the background.
Some of the many thousands of stairs we went up and down.
In the center of the city, llamas take a break.
At the Temple of the Condor, a stone engraving of a condor in the ground.
The back exit from the Temple of the Condor.
Us at the Entrance Gate.
Through this path you can actually climb Huayna Picchu, but you have to be one of the first 400 people there in the morning. As with many of these steps, going up is hard enough, but going down these steps is very scary, according to the couple of brave members of our group who did it.