Everyone has seen pictures of Machu Picchu. Before you actually get there you may just expect to be a little bored by it all. You feel you've been there. But when you you see it 'for real', the magnificence of the place hits you in the solar plexus. I am not new-age enough to go into meditation or claim I can hear the voices of those who once passed through (or hid from the Spanish 'conquistadores'), but no matter how you'd like to stay cool about the whole deal, it's almost impossible. There is a 'holiness' to the place, you get a feeling of awe (and not just because it's so improbably perfect). Something is 'in the air' - call it a vibe by any means. I don't know what, why or how... but it's inescapable.
I have tried not to do the usual Machu Picchu photos, but photograph the old ciudadela from new angles, while picturing the amazing architecture, the enormity of the complex, the stones which fit impossibly together so that in some walls not even a piece of paper can come between them (where earthquakes haven't moved them some... but even earthquakes couldn't dislodge them completely). Perhaps I have succeeded in a small way. What I tried to achieve is for you to follow me into Machu Picchu and, hopefully, feel a little of that vibration I talked about.
Mach Picchu is deep in-land and hidden in such a way that it wasn't 'discovered' until 1911 when a group of Quechuans led the American historian Hiram Bingham to the peak called "Machu Picchu", meaning "Old Peak". That's when he came across the ruins which we know today. The locals were actually living in Machu Picchu and also used the ancient Inca terraces.
Enjoy (and save up for the holiday of a lifetime in Peru)!
I have tried not to do the usual Machu Picchu photos, but photograph the old ciudadela from new angles, while picturing the amazing architecture, the enormity of the complex, the stones which fit impossibly together so that in some walls not even a piece of paper can come between them (where earthquakes haven't moved them some... but even earthquakes couldn't dislodge them completely). Perhaps I have succeeded in a small way. What I tried to achieve is for you to follow me into Machu Picchu and, hopefully, feel a little of that vibration I talked about.
Mach Picchu is deep in-land and hidden in such a way that it wasn't 'discovered' until 1911 when a group of Quechuans led the American historian Hiram Bingham to the peak called "Machu Picchu", meaning "Old Peak". That's when he came across the ruins which we know today. The locals were actually living in Machu Picchu and also used the ancient Inca terraces.
Enjoy (and save up for the holiday of a lifetime in Peru)!