Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
The Machu Picchu Guidebook: A Self-Guided Tour, by Ruth Wright. An excellent guidebook that explains how and why the Incas built the various structures at Machu Picchu.
Mark Adams • Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
According to the fascinating book The Languages of the Andes, Quechua includes a vast number of words to denote the act “to carry.”
Mark Adams • Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
“Everyone knows about Machu Picchu and, less so of course, places like Espiritu Pampa and Choquequirao. That’s because Bingham wrote about those things in his books. But he went to dozens of places, some that almost no one else has gone to since. He was dealing with corruption, thievery, people of dubious character—and he was under a lot of pressur
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The Conquest of the Incas, by John Hemming. The definitive history of Francisco Pizarro’s occupation of Peru, and the starting point for any serious examination of Inca history.
Mark Adams • Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
“There’s one fellow I know from Amazonas Explorer named Efrain—he’s very, very good. Speaks Quechua and English, knows his history.
Mark Adams • Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Machu Picchu: Exploring an Ancient Sacred Center, by Johan Reinhard. The original, and best, explanation of why Machu Picchu is most likely situated where it is.
Mark Adams • Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
John pointed to the far end of the site, where groups of Inca Trail hikers who’d awakened at four to meet the sunrise at the Sun Gate—virtually every tour company uses this supposedly magical moment as a selling point—were waiting impatiently for their first glimpse of the city. “The Sun Gate at sunrise is a complete waste of time,” John said as we
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Scientists have calculated that there are thirty-four types of climatic zones on the face of the earth. Peru has twenty of them.
Mark Adams • Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Patallacta is now believed to have been a satellite of Machu Picchu, a settlement where several hundred laborers resided and much of the food consumed at Machu Picchu was grown.