04-12-2006, 07:00 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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One visit to this legendary mountaintop city and you'll realize why the Inca believed their gods lived high in the Andes.
"Machu Picchu might prove to be the largest and most important ruin discovered in South America since the days of the Spanish conquest," wrote Hiram Bingham, the explorer who stumbled upon the marvelous granite city in 1911. Bingham was understating things: Every year, half a million tourists head to a remote Peruvian ridge to visit the 15th-century ruins.
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Sounds fun!

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