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| Machu Picchu and the great Italian explorer
Antonio Raimondi. |
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| Pantiacolla and curious marks in the rainforest
seen from space |
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| Vilcabamba the Old |
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| The Inca Trail and early accounts |
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| The truth behind some of the legends
of lost cities in the Andes of Peru is often far from the popular
legends. So why did the Italian explorer Raimondi mark Machu Picchu
on a map in 1865 long before its so-called discovery by the American
Hiram Bingham in 1911? Tens of thousands walk the Inca
Trail every year. What was it like back in the 1960s? Did
the gold seeking Spaniards find the Inca's 'golden sun' or punchao
in Vilcabamba the Old and who got there first and who followed.....
and why? Lost Cities will look at the endless rumours from
the Peruvian forests and then examine classic Inca sites such as the
tongue twisting Choquequirau or the hilltop site of Cerro Victoria. |
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