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Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel

is located in Aguas Calientes, a small town from which one can take a 30-minute bus ride up a series of switch backs to the ruins at Machu Picchu.  The Pueblo Hotel consists of a number of small buildings set in a rain forest, and it offers an "orchid trail" where visitors can view native orchids in their natural environment.

 Cafe

 Lobby

Grounds

Bromeliad Spike

 Haleconia

Humming Bird

Rain Forest

Anguloa virginalis

Cyrtochilum minax

Epi. syringothyrsus

Lycaste fimbriata

Lycaste locusta

Masd. veitchiana

Max. alpestris

Max. trigona

Pths. cordata

Pths. ruberrima

Pleurothalis species

Pleurothalis species

Prosthechea vespa

Scelochillus rubriflorus

Sobralia Patch

Stelliabium pogonostalix

Stellis species

Machu Picchu

The ruins were far more impressive and striking than I had anticipated. It's difficult to imagine how the Incas were able to build these fabulous stone structures without metal tools.  Views of the ruins from various locations and also under different light/.weather conditions were spectacular.  There were some orchids - mainly epidendrums, sobralias, and pleurothalis on the site, also.

Ruins

Mist Covered

Another View

Mountains

Mountains

Urubamba River

Guard House

Guard House

Temple of the Sun

Principal Temple

3-Window Temple

Royal Tomb

to Palace of the Princess

Pyramid with Sun Dial

Sun Dial

Two Story Building

Carved Stairs

Throne

Sacred Rock

Splitting a Rock

Llamas

Waynapicchu

Yoshi in Poncho

Yoshi

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