Today was a long day! We travelled up to the top of Machu Picchu which is one of the 7 New Wonders Of The World (Including Chichen Itza, I'll have visited five of them by the time I get back) and there was a lot of walking in both sunshine and pouring rain!
Machu Picchu is a famous city that was lived in by Incas hundreds of years ago in The Sacred Valley and it is unusual because it is built on the top of a mountain in The Andes. There are two parts of it; the bit behind me in the photo is where everyone lived and there is also another part that was used for farming crops and is made of lots of flat levels built into the mountainside (They look like giant steps). I also spotted some wild llamas and chinchillas as I wandered around which was cool.
Did You Know?: All of the houses at Machu Picchu were built in a certain direction so that they got the most amount of sunshine each day. By building them into different levels it also meant that one house never cast a shadow on another!
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