Machu Pikcu or better known as Machu Pichu is one of the top archeological sites in the world located above the Urubamba valley, Peru. each year tourist visiting is growing and it's preservation of the site has become a huge concern, so that UNESCO considering adding it to their list of World Heritage in Danger because a lot of damage cause by tourism.
Machu Pichu stands 2,430m above sea level, in the middle of tropical mountain forest in an extraordinary beautiful setting. it might be the most amazing urban creation 15th century of Inca empire at it's heights, it's giant wall, terrace and ramps seem as if they have been cut naturally in the continous rock escarpments.
Machu pichu was built around 1450 often refered too as the lost Inca city , since abandoned 100 years later when Spain beat Inca empire. the constructions appears to date from period of the two great Incas, Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui and Tupac Inca Yupanqui. this site was forgotten by international community but was later found again in 1911 by Hiram Bingham III, an archaeologist from Yale University. since then machu pichu become an interresting attraction for local and foreign tourist.
machu pichu, amazing creation of Inca empire
