100 years of Machu Picchu!
If you thought the title of this blog contains a historical error you are right! I am glad I got your attention, but there is some truth to it. Although this magnificent citadel and the city of the pre-Columbian Incas was built in 15th century it was unknown to the Western world until July of 1911 when an American historian Hiram Bingham “discovered it” after a local 11 year old boy led him to it. The ruins were inhabited by…