a collection of photos i took in peru set to music by a local band i saw perform there. i’m not happy that i’m doing the “photos set to music” thing, but i’m still learning the software i’m using. i’ll forgive myself this once.
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Machu Picchu is high in the Andes Mountains of Peru, and Peru is one of South America’s most magnificent and authentic countries. Machu Picchu was once a royal palace built by an Incan ruler. Machu Picchu sits like a mysterious city eight thousand feet above the sea. Peru’s most famous site, Machu Picchu, is more than Peru’s. Machu Picchu is one of the wonders of the world with its two hundred buildings and cloud covered beauty. About twelve hundred people lived in Machu Picchu, and Peru has done an exceptional job of preserving Machu Picchu. Professional Inca architects built Machu Picchu with granite blocks and bronze tools. The Inca architects at Machu Picchu were so advanced that the thinnest of knife blades can’t be forced between the stones. Travelers to Peru, to Machu Picchu climb the steep Inca trail to Machu Picchu. But there is a tourist bus from the town of Aguas Calientes. If you climb Machu Picchu in Peru by foot, don’t forget to stretch when you reach the bottom, Your legs will thank you the next morning. Arrive at Machu Picchu before dawn and don’t be disappointed by the fog. The ruins and surrounding peaks reveal themselves as the fog lifts, and steal your breath away. Peru’s Machu Picchu was discovered in 1911. Machu Picchu is an authentic travel experience
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Part 1 – Flight, Lima Historic Center, Miraflores, Nightlife, to Cuzco
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A nice promotional video I found at peru’s government turistic page www.promperu.org. Come visit peru!! Machu pichu has recently been declared as one of the new seven wonders of the world, one more reason to feel proud of my mother land 
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In the south of Peru you can visit the ancient Inca capital Cusco and the best and most famous of the Inca ruins: Machu Picchu
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This is some of the earliest color footage of Machu Picchu in Cuzco, Peru taken in June and July of 1950.
The film begins at a railroad station with people in a cattle car and men on the roof playing instruments.
A woman spins at a busy marketplace. The camera pans a narrow steep gorge approaching Machu Picchu revealing terrace farming on side of steep mountain, the valley at base of Machu Picchu, sunrise over terrace farms and ruins, and water coming out of ” princess” quarters. Inca stone buildings amid terrace forms on high steep side of mountain near the peak. The camera tracks the view from the plane back to Lima looking southeast toward the mountains.
All rights are reserved by the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). Any use of the footage in productions is forbidden unless rights have been secured by contacting the Penn Museum Archives at 215-898-8304, or emailfilms@museum.upenn.edu. This film and all of the films in the Penn Museum collection are copyrighted by the Penn Museum, and are not in the public domain. Full length footage can be seen at http://www.archive.org
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Machu Picchu (del quechua machu, viejo, y picchu cima, es decir, “cima vieja”) es el nombre contemporáneo de las ruinas de una antigua llacta (poblado) inca de piedra (cuyo nombre original habría sido Picchu o Picho [1]) construido a mediados del siglo XV en el promontorio rocoso que une las montañas Machu Picchu y Huayna Picchu en la Provincia de Urubamba, en la Región Cusco, en Perú.
Documentos coloniales [2] sugieren que Machu Picchu habría sido una especie de palacio privado de Pachacutec o Inca Yupanqui (primer emperador inca, 1438-1470). Sin embargo algunas de sus mejores construcciones y el evidente carácter ceremonial de la principal vía de acceso a la ciudad testimonian que ésta fue usada como un santuario religioso [3]. Ambos usos (palacio y santuario) no habrían sido incompatibles. Las investigaciones de las últimas décadas, en cambio, han descartado el supuesto carácter militar de Machu Picchu (por lo que los populares calificativos de “fortaleza” o “ciudadela” han sido superados) [4]
Machu Picchu es considerada al mismo tiempo una obra maestra de la arquitectura y la ingeniería [5]. Está en la lista del Patrimonio de la Humanidad desde 1983. Sus peculiares características arquitectónicas y paisajísticas y el velo de misterio que ha tejido a su alrededor buena parte de la literatura publicada sobre el sitio, lo han convertido en uno de los destinos turísticos más populares del mundo [6] y el principal de Perú, donde es un ícono nacional.
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October 2006 – Machu Picchu – The Lost City of the Incas. A day by day account of our 4 day Classic Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, Peru.
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Slideshow with images from Peru. There are pictures from Lima, Inca’s ruin, Ollantaytambo, Arequipa, Cusco, Titicaca, Machu Pichu. Don’t you think it is a good idea for a different vacation?
The music is “Susurro” Music written by Rodolfo Parada, from Quilapayún group from Chile and played by a peruvian group called Perumanta. You can find a group like this one in all world playing at streets.
It is a great deal to buy a CD from these folkloric pan flute groups.
All these images are taken by Dachalan, downloaded under Creative Commons License
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One place that has it all.