Terraces- amazing engineering!

The soil for 1,200 terraces was brought up from the Sacred Valley. Lining the bottom were pebbles and sand brought up the mt. From the river below. They were fertilized with guano (bird droppings) brought from the coast 600 miles away!

Machu Picchu

July 2nd 2013
What an amazing day! Early this morning, 6:30am to be exact, we got on a bus to take us up the mountain to the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. This site was built in the 1400-1500's. They worked on it for 90 yrs. and still did not finish it. It was built as a sanctuary for the priests and nobles. The people under the control of the Inca had to pay an annual labor tax, and it was those people ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more

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