Inside the ruins of Machu Picchu

After four hours of hiking around, we walked through the interior of the main urban area itself. Using a guide book we purchased in Cusco and occasionally eavsdropping on the english speaking tour groups we learned alot about the site that you wouldn´t get from just blindly walking around, because their are no interpretive signs to be had. Lots of steep terracing which would have had grown Maize back in the day and in the upper right of this photo, you can see a reconstructed thatched roof building as an example of how the buildings would have appeared during the time of the Inca.