A Mysteriously Curious ‘Alien’ Private Tour Of Machu Picchu, Peru, it would be unheard of to travel as far a Peru and did not make an effort to go to Machu Picchu.
This awesome, amazing and all inspiring ancient city is a sight to be beholden.
Even though it is the best-known archaeological site on the continent, it still can have up to 2500 people arrive daily to see it, in peak season.
A Mysteriously Curious ‘Alien’ Private Tour Of Machu Picchu, Peru
This Incan citadel is up high the Andes Mountains of Peru with the Urubamba River Valley below.
Machu Picchu was around from the 1460’s and has sophisticated dry-stone walls of huge blocks joined without mortar. It was abandoned 100 years later.
SOLD OUTThis private tour of the city of Cusco is a good introduction to enjoy everything that comes after your arrival. Enjoy the magic of its history, its beauty, streets, etc
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This semi-circle building made of rock from ancient times is an example of unusual design and craft in Peru. The way this Temple was built is how it got its name, and the way the Sun appears through the odd shaped windows especially exceptional during winter and summer solstices. There is a tower in the temple of the Sun where mummies were kept and worshipped in the royal tombs, apparently to the cult of the Sun mummies are important.
A unique experience, trekking with a guide for four days through the most beautiful, unbelievable landscapes and mountains before arriving at Macchu Picchu and seeing the sun rise over the mountains from the Sun Gate. The camaraderie that you get from doing this trek is fantastic; you make friends for life with strangers. During the Trek, you will also have been through Huayllabamba, Pacamayo and Huinay Huayna.
Not far from Machu Picchu and Cusco is Maras Salt Pools. Found in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, are the worked salt pans. Even before the Incas, salt has been collected here. The salt rises to the surface from a subterranean stream and disappearing in the Andean sunshine. The Andean hillsides look amazing with saltworks pools terraced up them. It looks like it has snowed in the sunshine. A great different guided tour.
Along the Inca trail are the ruins of Winay Wayna. A guided tour to these fascinating ruins gives you a good idea of daily life in this area many years ago. The ruins are foundations of houses clinging to a steep hill. You can see what is left of staircases, water fountains and see remnants of where the land had been farmed. These ruins are well preserved and add to the landscape. It is not surprising it is called ‘Little Machu Picchu.
The place when the sun gets tied, Intihuatana was a religious building. Originally made up of 4 sides, the same representing the north, east, west and south and found at the top of the sacred mountain. You climb 70 steps to reach this wonder of ancient technology, as it was recognised, as a type of clock to know when to celebrate the winter solstice, one of the most famous and influential times of celebration and rituals in Inca times.
There is something very mysterious about Machu Picchu, not only because of how it was built but by its design and the way it is placed on astronomical alignments. Some ancient historians believe that there were extraterrestrial influences in the building of it due to the advanced architecture. Whoever designed and built it, was clearly a thinker ahead of his time.
The Quechua language (a native language of Peru) Machu means old, and Picchu means peak. Therefore Machu Picchu means ‘old peak’.
Machu Picchu is about 80 kilometres from Cusco the Inca capital, and thankfully when the Spanish invaded Cusco, they never found it and therefore did not destroy it like they had other sacred buildings.
Over the many years to follow the jungle grew in and around Machu Picchu so much it became almost invisible to people who never knew it was there.
That is until 1911 when an American explorer, Hiram Bingham, looking for a hidden city came across it. It was him who Machu Picchu famous and organised the excavation and clearing of the site. Machu Picchu and the area around it was declared a true sanctuary in 1981.
The Mysterious Hidden City Guided Tour of Macchu Picchu has to be done while here!