... construction. To tell a little bit about what the Inca's went through to make such a fascinating city, I chose an insert from Hiram Bingham's book titled, Lost City Of The Incas, he notes "The gigantic polygonal blocks cling so closely together that it is impossible to insert the point of a knife between them. And they were brought from quarries more than a mile away ... trail, that climbs from the floor of the Urubamba valley to a point west of Machu Picchu, and was defended by a drawbridge. This narrow trail runs along the face of a rock cliff, where it leads to a gap created by the I...

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