Up at 5:30 AM, after breakfast took a 3 hour train ride down the river valley to Machu Picchu
Spent the day touring this 14 th century site. It is hard to believe what they did back then without any equipment, only their bare hands and a few crude tools.
It is interesting that the reason they built this huge infrastructure was to feed themselves as it rained up in the mountains but not down at the coast. On top of each of the terraces was soil brought in from somewhere as there is no soil like this anywhere close. Today the only way in is by train, back then they had to hike up the mountain trails with a basket of soil on their back.
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