#365 fun places on earth in one breath#
013 Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu
➡️ Where: Southern Peru, 3 hours by train from Cusco
➡️ Recommended travel time: 1 day
➡️In 1911, a professor at Yale University traveled to the Andes to find a lost Inca site, and under the guidance of the local Quechua, he accidentally discovered Machu Picchu.
Machu Picchu was built on the Urubamba River, and there are two theories about the purpose for which it was built, one was the resort of the Inca emperors, similar to the summer resorts of China; The other is a sacrificial ground, because many Indian remains have been unearthed here, and most of them are virgins.
Although the kind of tour that travels between Cusco and Machu Picchu on the same day can also get an overview of the ruins, I recommend that you come a day in advance so that you can still see the sunrise. After all, in the Inca belief system, the sun was the source of all energy.
To see the sunrise, be sure to choose a high observation deck that is still some distance away from the ruins (as shown on the right platform in Figure 2), and you will see the sunlight scanning all the way, and the dark territory is lost.
Machu Picchu is backed by a large mountain, and the stone blocks of buildings cover the entire plain, no matter what the geometry of those buildings, but without exception, all of them have no roof, allowing people to see the internal structure at a glance, like looking at a huge sand table model at a sales office.
Each ticket includes a two-hour guided tour, so you'll always hear the guide start his speech with a phrase "in the Inca era."
"In the Inca era, all buildings were made of stone, without a single cement mortar, standing a meter away you couldn't even see the gap, and you couldn't stick a knife into it."
"It takes modern people four days to walk the Inca Trail, but my ancestors took less than four hours (43 kilometers) to complete the entire distance!"
"Why can only alpacas be seen in Machu Picchu? Because the alpaca's mouth is like a shovel, eating only the part that is exposed to the surface. After a rain, the land is still thriving. ”
➡️ Private room recommendation: After listening to the tour guide, you still have time to sightsee freely, and you can walk to the Inca Gate in an hour, from here you can look at the panoramic view of the ruins; Another ancient road leads to a site called the Inca Suspension Bridge, which can only be viewed from a distance and is no longer allowed to pass, after all, there is a cliff on one side (Figure 7), and I don't have the good skills of the Incas!
➡️365 days of travel
I love Miyazaki's "Castle in the Sky", the castle in the air in the anime, distant and mysterious, but after being discovered by greedy humans, it is inevitable to escape destruction. It is said that the Peruvian tourism board wanted to build a sightseeing elevator in the scenic area of Machu Picchu, but it was shelved because of the overwhelming opposition. A beautiful thing, after being inquired by human beings clearly, the next step is to sit down and settle the account, see how to maximize the value, this is the logic of pragmatism, and in the heart of every idealist, there is also a sky city, if you want to preserve its integrity, you must not forget the original intention, can not be defeated by your own greed.
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