Traveling
  • 2018 Europe XXVII
    • Day 1 - Arrival in Luzern
    • Day 2 - Luzern
    • Day 3 - Bern
    • Day 4 - Last Day in Bern
  • 2015 Round the World (Pages in Progress)
    • 2015 Cuzco, Peru
    • 2015 Sacred Valley
    • 2015 Machu Picchu
    • 2015 To the Rain Forrest
    • 2015 Cayman Lodge #OffTheGrid
    • 2015 Rain Forest - Day 1
    • 2015 Rain Forest - Day 2
    • 2015 Lima, Peru
    • 2015 Berlin
    • 2015 Warsaw, Poland
    • 2015 Krakow, Poland
    • 2015 Ho Chi Minh City - Day 1
    • 2015 Ho Chi Minh City - Day 2
    • 2015 Bus Ride to Cambodia
    • 2015 Phnom Penh
    • 2015 Floating City, Cambodia
    • 2015 Angkor Wat - Siem Reap, Cambodia
    • 2015 Angkor Wat - Sunrise
    • 2015 - Battambang, Cambodia
    • 2015 - Bangkok, Thailand
    • 2015 - New Zealand Bike Tour - Days 1 and 2
  • August 2015 Europe (in progress)
    • Day 2 - Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
  • Brazil - World Cup 2014
    • Argentina vs Swiss 2014 World Cup
    • Santos - The Lifeguard Study
    • Sao Paulo
    • More Santos and the BBQ
  • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bicycle Race
    • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bike Race - Morning Session
    • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bike Race - Afternoon Session
  • Africa Trip - February 2013
    • 2013 Days 15 and 16 Zanzibar
    • 2013 Day 14 Safari Ends
    • 2013 Day 13 Tarangire
    • 2013 Day 12 Ngorongoro
    • 2013 Day 11 Serengeti to Ngorongoro
    • 2013 Day 10 Serengeti
    • 2013 Day 9 - Drive to Serengeti
    • 2013 Day 8 - First Day on Safari
    • 2013 Days 5, 6 and 7
    • 2013 Day 4 Cape Town
    • 2013 Day 3 Cape Town
  • 2014 New Zealand - North Island
    • Auckland
    • The Drive to Napier
  • 2013 Baltic Countries
    • 2013 Valnius
    • 2013 Riga, Latvia
    • 2013 Tallinn, Estonia
    • 2013 Tartu, Estonia
    • 2013 Stockholm
  • Barcelona - April 2013
    • Dali Museum
    • Futbol Club Barcelona
  • Nature Valley Grand Prix - Stillwater, MN 16 June 2013
  • 2001
  • Misc. Minneapolis
  • 2014 Red Bull Crashed Ice
  • Birchwood Team 2016

Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu was wonderful.  The night of arrival was spent in Machu Picchu town It rained that night but the rain was over by the I left for Machu Picchu with my guide.  If I were to do it again I'd probably go earlier and try to catch sunrise.  Still might have missed sunrise due to clouds and the rain may not have been over yet.  Machu Picchu is beautiful. It was somewhat foggy on arrival, clouds rolling up next to some of the mountains.  Certainly not a place to miss, but it's not going to change so it may be one of those places that I go once.

 About 60% of what you see today is original, the rest is restored. 

Constructed beginning in about 1430 over a 100 year period until it was abandoned soon after the Spanish arrived. The Spanish never found it, restoration began in the mid 20th century.

The Incas didn't keep written records so we don't have real good information about the construction, etc
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