A last look before leaving my excellent viewing location and heading into the city itself.
Machu Picchu
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A last look before leaving my excellent viewing location and heading into the city itself. |
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Climbing down the long staircase, one gets a different perspective of the city and the living areas. |
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Suddenly, you are in the city itself, admiring the precise masonry. All these oddly shaped stones are fitting together perfectly. |
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A home with a stunning view. Surely belonging to an aristocratic family, close to the king. |
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Passing through one of the housing areas, one gets to the temple with it's immense stone altar and beyond that, a high place of worship. |
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Some of the finest examples of Inca stone masonry. |
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From the temple it's up a surpisingly hard set of stairs to the high place of worship and its stone altar (sacrificial?). |
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An earthquake moved the walls of the temple around |
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There is yet one more sacred stone, which, if I recall, may have been dedicated to the Sun |
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After this comes the departure and the feeling as if one is in a magical place that seems beyond reality |
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Or you can just stand there and adore that beautiful large new souvenir bag |
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