Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: Machu

The final destination of our railway journey from Cusco. Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a 2,430-meter (7,970 ft) mountain ridge. The Incas built the estate around 1450 but actually abandoned it a century later, at the time of the Spanish conquest. It was obviously a tourist site when we visited but has become much more popular since 1980. In 2007, Machu Picchu was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide internet poll & I have to say its location in the Andes is absolutely stunning.

Colourfully dressed Peruvian girls with llama and lamb on the mountain top north of Cusco. I think we had been to Sacsayhuamán and drove on into the surrounding mountains.