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site of Machu Picchu Inca ruins is formed from the first half of the 15th century. Upon arrival of the conquistadors, the resistance led by the Inca Pachacutec took refuge during the English occupation of the site. Citadel of Machu Picchu (Quechua: Old Mountain) is the greatest work Inca. She was extraordinarily built on an area of difficult topography and inaccessible. It is now universally known for its impressive ruins and original, as for its incomparable location on the edge of a precipice overlooking the torrential waters of the Urubamba River. Still the mystery remains: how have they managed to transport the boulders on the summit of the mountain and build a building so spectacular? According to a guide, they used the construction technique of slope land and other material (just like the Egyptians) to mount some stones at the building of houses.
arquitectonique The structure of Machu Picchu, with its religious and military functions, was surrounded by a great wall of 6 meters high and 1.8 wide. According to architect Alfredo Valencia, it can be divided into 2 main sectors: urban and agricultural sectors. Each is composed of two sub-sectors: Western and Eastern, defined by location. The agricultural sector is divided into "high" and "down".
The "high" presents five speakers: the Apacheta (stone marking a sacred place) and over 40 terraces in the Andes. The "bottom" has 7 speakers and 80 terraces. The many successive terraces, some connected by stone stairs built into walls and other by stairways to multiple tiers in the shape of corridors. The design of the terraces is in perfect harmony with the mountains surrounding the place, the sides appear to have been carved to blend in with nature. A high wall separates the urban area of agriculture. You will enter the urban area by crossing a double facade piers lithic point where the ends Inca Trail between Cusco to Machu Pichu. This sector is composed of 172 pregnant shapes and sizes, linked by 109 stoops to transit through the irregularities peculiar to the mountain of Machu Picchu. The speakers are arranged in the form of "neighborhoods" to specific functions depending on the characteristics and cultural evidence found during the excavations. One area was for the filing of crops of coca or produced but on the terraces farm.
According to legend he was in fact a sanctuary for virgins, where 60% of people who lived there were women (based on bones found on the website). The researchers suggest the likely possibility of a religious center on a larger scale. Several roads were accessing this impregnable citadel perched at 2400 md altitude. One of the best known is the path of the Inca built on a steep cliff.
Discovered in 1912 by Hiram Bingham, a arquéologue North America and especially with a very good team of woodcutters, in 30 years they have rebuilt stone by stone at Machu Picchu which was eaten by the jungle after being left to the neglect, little spree arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century. In 1929 the law was declared County Board of Trustees of Archaeology of Cusco. Today the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu and the archaeological area, with ten other important ruins are protected by the administration of NIC, National Institute of Culture.
Suddenly, The zarmalouloux jumped at the chance to visit this wall hidden in the clouds. So we left our bikes that could never climb so far above (the option Inca Trail n is not open to Western Inca without the card). We have had other information by a messenger of the Moon Island (Lake Titicaca), like what existed a secret tunnel from the lake up to Machu Picchu itself, or more precisely Waynapichu (the big mountain behind the foo ). With Zarma have said Banco ¡zoubidou for the tunnel. You should know that this tunnel of 280km was developed 500 years ago, carved by time and the passage of an underground river, connected directly to drain the lake itself. The Incas were emptied and then refilled the tunnel grain by grain, but during the 1000 crop of fabulous summer of 1369 (the wish to believe). The tunnel So walking on the principle of autoglissage on these small yellow balls. Just like 5 centuries later in Montparnasse (Paris Advisories accustomed to this station). Practical and useful we arrive at the foot of Machu Picchu but inside the mountain. How to ride to the ruins? The Incas had planned everything! There is a truck bound bamboo has a great vine. Did not have electricity on site, a person should throw himself adapted upper Waynapicchu cons to weight on the truck and we go directly to the central square.
"Genial!" cried the Zarma "We're at Machu Pichu the 8 th wonder of the world"
After a visit where one still wonders how men have done to build houses and terraces on steep cliffs, we thought that surely they used bamboo scaffolding because they knew neither the iron or the wheel.
After an hour and some explanation of Pachacutec itself, we learn that there were 3 worlds in their civilization. He Pumas representing the earth, men and the world of the living snake corresponding river, dead, and finally that the condor talking to gods and other deities nicknamed Apus ...
It is through the main gate of Machu Picchu as we entered a corridor of temporal regression, and there, big surprise, we also use the bus said "green" to go up to the site, they washed in all downhill for the tourists.
Then back down, we immediately called the security department of the place on heaps of garbage that people with little serious stock in this magical place. But the guard told us it was not his job and that in this world no one knew what to do but pack them!
The Zarma frightened of the 21st century, are now left in the tunnel, it seems, lead to a more tranquil called Choquequirao (the cradle of gold in Quechua) ...
Stay tuned ...
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