This is the road the buses to and from Machu Picchu use. It's only about 1.5 buses wide and there are some close calls when a bus going up meets a bus coming down!

Here is the first glimpse I had of Machu Picchu from the bus going up.

A mountain near Machu Picchu.

This is the entrance to Machu Picchu. Doesn't look like much.

Until you see this when you go around the corner!

Some mountains around Machu Picchu.

The Incas were amazing stone workers. This is a wall they built using no mortar. They only built with this level of skill on important buildings like temples and palaces. Regular houses were built using mortar between the stones.

This is the sun temple, under it is an earth temple.

Inside the Sun Temple.

The Incas used terraces for agriculture and to prevent erosion on the mountainsides.

The lone tree in Machu Picchu.

The springs the Incas built are still working today.

The Incas really loved stairs.

Really loved stairs.

Really, really loved stairs.

This is a view of the agriculture terraces.

You can see here that this was clearly not an important building, the walls are rows of rocks filled with mortar.

Another view of the agricultural terraces.

This area housed priests and a temple complex.

The temple complex.

In between two temples.

Inside one temple.

This is called the temple of three windows because no one knows what is was used for and it has three windows.

Inside the temple of three windows.

More terraces and the quarry.

Terraces and outside of the temple housing a huge sun dial.

These terraces were used to prevent erosion.

The acoustics in this amphitheater were amazing. Voices echoed all over Machu Picchu.

This is the entrance to a little cave.

Only skeletons of women and children were found in this cemetary.

This temple of the earth is located under the temple of the sun.

The temple of the moon is located on this mountain, a few hours hike from Machu Picchu.

The Incas werent nearly as neat with their construction on the outside of the city as the inside.

This slab looks like the mountains behind it.

These rocks also look like the mountains behind them.

This temple is starting to fall down due to earth tremors.

I found a little caterpillar on my hike up to the top of Machu Picchu. I think it was hiding from the llamas.

You have to use your imagination for this one, but if you can see the rock on the ground as the body and the two rocks going up at angles as wings, this is a condor.

Here is where the Inca trail comes into Machi Picchu.

There are 11 llamas that live in Machu Picchu.

5 were brought here and 6 were born here.

They like to trap the poor tourists wandering around by themselves.

I was blocked in by llamas for about 5 minutes, while one chewed on my shirt.