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Peru,Urubamba Valley,Machu Picchu. View of the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu with the prominent peak of Huayna Picchu behind. Built by the Inca Emperor Pachacuti in the fifteenth century AD,Machu Picchu became an important agricultural centre as well as a stronghold and centre of sacred temples.
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Peru,Urubamba,Valley,Ollantaytambo. Jewellery made of traditional designs and symbols for sale at a street stall
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Ruined city of Chan Chan & the Imperial city of Chimu & largest adobe city in the World
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Moray Incan agricultural laboratory ruins near Maras, Sacred Valley, Peru, South America
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Moray Incan agricultural laboratory ruins near Maras, Sacred Valley, Peru, South America
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Moray Incan agricultural laboratory ruins near Maras, Sacred Valley, Peru, South America
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Peru, Native Indian women lead their llamas past the ruins of Saqsaywaman, built by the Incas on pre-Inca foundations.
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Peru, The world-famous Inca ruins at Machu Picchu at an altitude of 7,710 feet above sea level with the peak, Huayna Picchu.
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Peru, The world-famous Inca ruins at Machu Picchu at an altitude of 7,710 feet above sea level with the peak, Huayna Picchu.
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Peru, The world-famous Inca ruins at Machu Picchu at an altitude of 7,710 feet above sea level with the peak, Huayna Picchu.
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Peru, The world-famous Inca ruins at Machu Picchu at an altitude of 7,710 feet above sea level with the peak, Huayna Picchu.
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Peru, The world-famous Inca ruins at Machu Picchu situated in mountainous scenery at an altitude of 7,710 ft above sea level.
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Sacsayhuaman fortress above Cusco is one of the most impressive of all the Inca ruins. The trapezoidal door is classic Inca architecture,built to withstand earthquakes unlike the Spanish arches which frequently tumble down.
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Intihuatana - The hitching Post of the Sun - sundial to catch sun,it casts no shadow at both equinoxes.
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Machu Picchu from Inti Punku the Sun Gate - Inca trail hikers get the same first view as did the Inca Pilgrims.
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Polychrome frieze representing the face of the Moche god Aipaec decorates a wall in the Temple of the Moon near Trujillo in northern Peru
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A Nazca mummy surrounded by pottery,bone and cloth fragments in the Cemetery of Chauchilla in Peru.
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A Nazca mummy is surrounded by pottery,bone and cloth fragments in the Cemetery of Chauchilla in Peru.
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The skull of a Nazca mummy surrounded by pottery,bone and cloth fragments in the Cemetery of Chauchilla in Peru.
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The skull of a Nazca mummy surrounded by pottery,bone and cloth fragments in the Cemetery of Chauchilla,southern Peru.
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Close-up of stone walls and brick structures for doorways, Machu Picchu, Peru
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Machu Picchu, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Aguas Calientes, Peru, South America
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Tourists on huge stone terraces in the Inca ruins of Ollantaytambo, The Sacred Valley, Peru, South America
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Peru, This beautiful red-leafed bromeliad growing on a dry-stone wall at Machu Picchu captures moisture from the low clouds.
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Peru, A rufous-collared sparrow. These birds are commonly seen around the world-famous Inca ruins at Machu Picchu.
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Peru, In the early morning, low mist and clouds rise from the steep-sided valleys surrounding the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu.
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Peru, The small town of Aguas Calientes nestles in a deep valley beside the Urubamba River, a short distance from Machu Picchu.
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Peru. The fascinating, deep amphitheatre-like terracing at Moray was built by the Incas around 1400. It is believed to have been used as an experimental agricultural site because each layer of concentric terraces has its own microclimate.
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Peru. A trail zigzags up a steep ridge on the Andean Mountains east of Cusco.
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Agricultural terraces, Machu Picchu, peru, peruvian, south america, south american, latin america, latin american South America. The lost city of the Inca was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911
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Inca wall, Machu Picchu, peru, peruvian, south america, south american, latin america, latin american South America. The lost city of the Inca was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911
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Agricultural terraces , Machu Picchu, peru, peruvian, south america, south american, latin america, latin american South America. The lost city of the Inca was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911
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An innovative bicycle trolley,being used to mixed effect by its inventors.
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A Runa girl proudly shows off a gladioli. With the drab colours of the landscape as a background,the natives love of bright colours and particularly flowers is especially clear.
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Potato harvesting in fields in the highlands. An old man leans against the raw llama wool sacks. Each stripe the colour of the animal it came from. There are over 200 species of potato and nearly 3,000 varieties in this country that was there origin. The domestication of the potato,maize,llama and guinea pig were the foundation upon which the early andean civilisations were built.
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The Hands. Situated alongside the PanaAmerican Highway,this is one of the figures visible from a small metal watchtower,for those who cannot afford the light aircraft overflights. Sadly the tyre tracks of off road vehicles will also last for thousands of years. Careless motorists have damaged many of the lines over the last few decades since Maria Reiche's studies made them famous.
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The Monkey,one of the more well known Nazca forms. Many of the designs were found on their fine weavings and pottery as well as on this desert plain. It shows that there was contact with the jungle provinces on the far side of the Andes.
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A high lake in the Vilcabamba range; at the waters edge a mule wrangler checks his fishing line at dawn.
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Peru,Cusco,Sacred Valley. Quechua woman and her son in the village of Cjuncunca.
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