Machu Picchu’s Inca Trail closed early this year due to a landslide earlier this month, but you can bet that when it reopens, it will be flooded with tourists from around the world. To minimize the damage done by crowds of hikers along popular hiking routes, and to diversify tourism opportunities in the region, Peru is planning to open new routes to Machu Picchu this year.
You may have seen this classic view of the ancient Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, with its stone structures and terraces and the pinnacle of Wayna Picchu in the background, so many times that it no longer serves to inspire. But when you're there, and you enter the complex and stand at this very spot, it'll be like seeing it for the first time. It's truly a special place.
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