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Machu Picchu is one of the best known archaeological sites in the world for a reason: it is simply spectacular. Built at the height of the Inca empire, in the 15th century, and rediscovered by Hiram Bingham in 1911, the remote mountaintop city dominates a narrow ridge and is surrounded by steep-sided peaks and misty cloud forest. Its giant walls, terraces and ramps are entirely invisible from below, but create an incredible condor-shaped spectacle - or so the Incan people believed - for the gods above.
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