The City in the Clouds

Sunrise at Machu Picchu
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Machu Micchu, the ancient religious sight of the Inka Empire, is something needed to be seen for your own eyes. My words or pictures, no matter how arty-farty I am in presenting them, cannot sum up the crippling awe and seducing respect the city imposes on your soul. It is an engineering world wonder, and botanic laboritory and a truely fitting complex to crown the only surviving city of the Inka's.

Some background information for you before you view the photos:

Stunning Machu Picchu Photo's

Resident lawn-mowers for Machu Micchu
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Machu Picchu is the name of the mountian where upon the city is perched. It literally means 'old mountain.' It's location is the secret to it's preservation, as Machu Picchu is positioned in the aptley named, cloud forest. There are two types of Jungle in Peru, high-jungle: cloudforest, and low-jungle: rainforest. When the inhabitants left the city aroun 1550AD to, what is thought to have happened' fight the invading Spanish Conquistadors, it didn't take too long (10-20 years) for the cloudforest to swallow up the desserted city with bamboo and other invasive shrubs.

The City in the Clouds
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Re-discovered by a German cartographer by chance as he trekked the mountians, it was slowly unearthed, brutishly looted (as it's well founded nickname was 'The City of Gold') and finally preseved as a national hertitage sight finally has come to the attention of the mordern world, the true interlectual might and engineering superiority of the Inkan Empire, not matched by westeners until the industrial revolution of the late 19th century.

With it's wonderful temples, unbelieveable farming terraces and tear-enducing mountain scenery framing the whole site, I need say no more and let the photo's tell Machu Picchu's story for itself.