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Machu Picchu
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The most famous picture of Machu Picchu- a view from the guardhouse at sunrise
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Staring into vast emptyness
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These are the renowned 'flioating stairs' of the Incas. In most places, they built stairs without a guard rail on the side of the mountain and went up and down nimbly
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Looking down at the staircase makes you dizzy and it is better holding the wall to the left to climb down.
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As viewed from on top of Huayna Picchu
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This is the main square betwen the religous and the residential areas
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Our first glimpse of the ruins
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The Intihuatana- which means 'where one ties the sun'. it was used in a ritual that had to secure the presence of the sun on the shortest day of the year; winter solstice