After a long journey from Tenochtitlan, I reached Machu Picchu. This place is almost more breath taking than Tenochtitlan. I am not going to lie; I did feel very winded when I got there. From what I found out that it is over 7,700ft- the elevation is out of this world. Also, I learned a little bit of Quechua which was the language they spoke there. Machu Picchu actually means “old peak”. It literally took my breath away. There’s these massive mountains that surround this place and it is covered by this forest kind of jungle almost. This amazing structure belongs to the Incan people, who are so lovely and have treated me like their own. When I looked at this place, it looks like there are two sections one for farming and another was like plaza, where I also saw a couple of temples. In the farming section, you could see them growing so many beautiful crops, like corn and sweet potatoes. They even let me try some which was really kind of them. But something that I couldn’t keep my eyes from was just the structure of this place. The houses there are beautifully structured with stone. I am not certain how they made these stones so perfectly squared shaped to make these structures. These were so perfectly made and the entryways were like a trapezoid kind of shape which was really interesting to me. I haven’t seen anything like this. There were also steps along the mountain and every step had different kinds of crops.

Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2024, February 5). Machu Picchu. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/place/Machu-Picchu

Lucy C. Salazar, “Machu Picchu: Mysterious Royal Estate in the Cloud Forest,” in Machu Picchu : Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas, edited by Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).