From Ollantaytambo we caught a train to Aguascalientes Caliente, a small shanty town nestled by a raging river that snakes it's way through deep valleys surrounded by epic mountains... the home of the Incas and the beautiful Machu Picchu. Built between 1450 and 1540 it was supposed to be the final destination and a place safe from all. However, as the Spanish invasion grew stronger and closer to this part of Peru, the Inca people decided to evacuate into the jungle. Consistently, unlike many of the other inca sites around Peru, Machu Picchu was never found by the Spanish and therefore, never destroyed. Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, which meant that we were lucky enough to be visiting during it's 100th anniversary of discovery.
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