Breathtaking!

While we are traveling now for nearly five months, we were still unable to see one of the new seven wonders of the world : it is now done with our visit to Machu Picchu. The title of this post speaks for itself, the citadel and its surroundings are a pure beauty : breathtaking, and not only because of the altitude. And since we are speaking of breath, we needed some of it to climb the 400 vertical meters of the famous mountain Wayna Picchu, the Sugar Loaf you can see on the typical pictures just in the background of the citadel. Once at the top, it has an exceptional view on the site, as you can see on some pictures.

We leave Cusco today, a pretty town former capital of the Inca civilization to Lima where we will spend our last four days in South America before flying to the United States.

More pictures are available by clicking here.