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2. Peru gives in to protesters in Machu Picchu and rescinds ...

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   Peru's government on Wednesday backtracked on plans to outsource the sale of entry tickets to Machu Picchu to a private company, a week after protesters blocked access to the country's most famous ...

3. Machu Picchu - Wikipedia

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   The leading theory is that Machu Picchu was a private city for Incan royalty. The names of the buildings, their supposed uses, and their inhabitants, are the product of modern archaeologists based on physical evidence, including tombs at the site. Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls.

4. Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu - Wikipedia

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   The Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu [2] is a protected area in Peru covering over 35,000 hectares. It includes the natural environment surrounding the Machu Picchu archaeological site, located in the rugged cloud forest of the Yungas on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes and along both banks of the Urubamba River, which flows northwest in this section.

5. Tourism in Peru - Wikipedia

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   The southern railway, operated by PeruRail, a company founded by tourism entrepreneur Lorenzo Sousa in 1999, is the one most commonly used by tourists and is considered to have two of the most luxurious rail services in the world, The Hiram Bingham and the Andean explorer, as a segment of its route goes from the city of Cusco to the citadel of ...

6. Machu Picchu reopens today – is it safe to visit? - AOL

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   Machu Picchu was closed on Saturday 21 January due to anti-government protests spreading across Peru. Protests began after former president Pedro Castillo was removed from office, impeached and ...

7. Sacred Valley - Wikipedia

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   The Sacred Valley is a major tourist destination. In 2019, 1.6 million people, the majority non-Peruvians, visited Machu Picchu, [2] its most famous archaeological site. Many of the same tourists also visited other archaeological sites and modern towns in the Sacred Valley.