Machu Picchu

Here are my first batch of pictures from Machu Picchu. My hiking group and I climbed up from Aguas Calientes to Machu Picchu early in the morning so we could see the ruins before anyone else arrived. On feature that impressed me at Machu Picchu and at other ruins was that, in many cases, the Incas built structures without mortar. They simply places stone on top of stone. Archaeologists still have a hard time figuring out how they carved the stones to such perfection that they could stay in place for hundreds of years.