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		<title>One Million Tourists Visit Machu Picchu in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, uncovered from overgrowth and obscurity 100 years ago by U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham, will have received at least one million tourists by the end of this year, according to Percy Canales, president of the Natio...]]></description>
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		<title>Cusco’s Casa Concha opens doors for Machu Picchu exhibition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cusco’s Casa Concha, owned by the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad de Cusco (UNSAAC), has opened its doors for two weeks to exhibit more than 360 artifacts from Machu Picchu that were recently returned by Yale University. The artifacts will be d...]]></description>
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		<title>Inauguration of Machu Picchu artifacts in Cusco planned for July 7</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2011/04/20/inauguration-of-machu-picchu-artifacts-in-cusco-planned-for-july-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inauguration of the exhibit in Cusco of archaeological remains from Machu Picchu, which were recently returned to Peru from Yale University, is scheduled for July 7, state news agency Andina reported. Over 300 pieces, which are currently on display...]]></description>
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		<title>Machu Picchu Artifacts To Return Home</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2011/04/09/machu-picchu-artifacts-to-return-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After years of arguments, some quite bitter, Yale has finally agreed to send back some of the many artifacts it holds, originally taken from Machu Picchu and other ancient Peruvian archaeological sites. Some of these are due to arrive in Cusco in time for the 100th year anniversary of Hiram Bingham's rediscovery of the citadel. The rest will reach Peru by December 2012.]]></description>
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		<title>100 Years Of Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2011/04/08/100-years-of-machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s true: a whole century has passed since Hiram Bingham re-discovered Machu Picchu, and Peru will be celebrating with typical enthusiasm. In the words of one government official, Culture Minister Juan Ossio has said “Celebrations must be over the top.”]]></description>
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		<title>Government Palace opens doors to show Machu Picchu artifacts</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2011/04/05/government-palace-opens-doors-to-show-machu-picchu-artifacts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artifacts from Machu Picchu, which were taken from Peru almost a century ago and recently returned by Yale University, have been put on display at the Government Palace, state news agency Andina reported. Authorities have set up 16 showcases to display...]]></description>
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		<title>Yale to return all Machu Picchu artifacts by December 2012</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2011/03/31/yale-to-return-all-machu-picchu-artifacts-by-december-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yale University is planning to send to Peru the last shipment of Machu Picchu artifacts by December 2012, state news agency Andina reported. The first shipment of the archaeological pieces, which were taken from Peru almost a century ago, arrived on We...]]></description>
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		<title>First set of Machu Picchu artifacts to be returned on March 30</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2011/03/29/first-set-of-machu-picchu-artifacts-to-be-returned-on-march-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Peru is to receive the first batch of artifacts that were taken from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago for research at Yale University, Culture Minister Juan Ossio said. “We expect that the pieces will arrive Wednesday. They will be rece...]]></description>
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		<title>Yale to return all Machu Picchu pieces, says Foreign Affairs minister</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2011/03/09/yale-to-return-all-machu-picchu-pieces-says-foreign-affairs-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Affairs minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde rejected claims by Congressman Yonhy Lescano that Peru will receive from Yale University only 20 percent of the thousands of archaeological pieces removed from Machu Picchu between 1912-16. Lescano ...]]></description>
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		<title>Machu Picchu reveals new secrets: Inkaraqay</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/10/03/machu-picchu-reveals-new-secrets-inkaraqay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 05:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only ever seen by a few people over the past century, the Inca site of Inkaraqay located on an inaccessible and nearly vertical side of the Huayna Picchu mountain that overlooks Machu Picchu, is only now being revealed to the wider world.]]></description>
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		<title>Cusco celebrates reopening of Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/04/02/cusco-celebrates-reopening-of-machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tough times are over for Cusco's suffering tourism industry as Machu Picchu reopens to a celebrity visit and an explosive party!]]></description>
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		<title>Ceremonial huaca found at Salapunku site</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/03/24/ceremonial-huaca-found-at-salapunku-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archaeologists working at the Salapunku site near Machu Picchu in Cusco have discovered a new ceremonial platform or huaca, a holy site used to make offerings to local apus.]]></description>
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		<title>Reopening of Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/02/25/reopening-of-machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Repair work is under way and progressing well on the route to the famed citadel. When will Machu Picchu re-open to visitors? Find the April and June dates here.]]></description>
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		<title>Without Machu Picchu you’ll enjoy the trip of a lifetime</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/02/04/without-machu-picchu-you%e2%80%99ll-enjoy-the-trip-of-a-lifetime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPECIAL: PERU WITHOUT MACHU PICCHU - Machu Picchu is closed. It will stay that way through all of February at the very least. Do you have your flights booked and are wondering what to do next? Should you cancel or put off your trip to Cuzco?]]></description>
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		<title>Access to Machu Picchu completely destroyed</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/01/28/access-to-machu-picchu-completely-destroyed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Machu Picchu looks set to be out of service for quite some time as the single rail link taking tourists to the ancient Inca citadel has been completely wiped out. Peru's over-sold main tourist attraction is an example of hyping a single site in a single small area of Peru to concentrate revenue that now looks to be backfiring.

See the amazing photos and videos of the destruction here.]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands of tourists trapped at Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley cut off, Rescue plans need re-think</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/01/26/thousands-of-tourists-trapped-at-machu-picchu-sacred-valley-cut-off-rescue-plans-need-re-think/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2010/01/26/thousands-of-tourists-trapped-at-machu-picchu-sacred-valley-cut-off-rescue-plans-need-re-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere between 2000 and 3000 tourists are trapped in Aguas Calientes, also known as Machu Picchu Pueblo, with plans to evacuate getting ever more complicated.]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency declared in Cusco: Heavy rains flood the region</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/01/26/emergency-declared-in-cusco-heavy-rains-flood-the-region/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2010/01/26/emergency-declared-in-cusco-heavy-rains-flood-the-region/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UP TO THE MINUTE NEWS - State of Emergency in six provinces of Cusco and all of Apurímac. Weather service reports rain around 67% in excess of the norm. 66 people rescued from Aguas Calientes by helicopters, 3000 tourists and locals are trapped. 8 people dead, including two foreign tourists, and more than 7000 families left homeless.]]></description>
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		<title>Torrential rains put more Incan sites at risk</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2010/01/19/torrential-rains-put-more-incan-sites-at-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2010/01/19/torrential-rains-put-more-incan-sites-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heavy rains that caused damage to a wall at ancient Sacsayhuamán have not halted. Other sites are suffering damage too and tourists are facing restrictions and where they are allowed to go.]]></description>
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		<title>Four ceremonial fountains discovered at Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/12/07/four-ceremonial-fountains-discovered-at-machu-picchu/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2009/12/07/four-ceremonial-fountains-discovered-at-machu-picchu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Incas possessed what was the culmination of all Andean hydraulic engineering knowledge developed over millennia by the civilisations that came before them. This knowledge is said by experts to have been far superior to that of the Spanish who conquered them and wiped it out for ever. As good a place as any to witness the evidence of their impressive skills is at Machu Picchu, and it is at this famous site that yet more discoveries have been made.]]></description>
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		<title>Train to Machu Picchu-Aguas Calientes, new operators, what you need to know</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/10/08/train-to-machu-picchu-aguas-calientes-new-operators-what-you-need-to-know/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2009/10/08/train-to-machu-picchu-aguas-calientes-new-operators-what-you-need-to-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were only two ways to get to Machu Picchu - hiking the tracks from Santa Teresa (cheap) or catching an overpriced train from Cusco or Ollantaytambo. Now that Perú Rail's monopoly has come to an end, there are two further options to get to the Inca Citadel. ]]></description>
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		<title>Surprising water engineering at Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/07/08/surprising-water-engineering-at-machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The management and distribution of water in Machu Picchu is one example of the notable hydraulic engineering of the Incas and from those more ancient cultures who's knowledge they inherited and expanded upon.]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-Inca tomb found at Salapunku, Machu Picchu reserve</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/06/17/pre-inca-tomb-found-at-salapunku-machu-picchu-reserve/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2009/06/17/pre-inca-tomb-found-at-salapunku-machu-picchu-reserve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archaeologists from the National Institute of Culture (INC) have found a pre-Inca tomb at the Salapunku archaeological site located in the protected area of Machu Picchu.

The Salapunku site, located above the railway line than today takes visitors to the ruins of Machu Picchu, is home to a bridges, an aqueducts and now pre-Inca tombs.

The discovery was made in the area known as Zone III and the tombs were located in a sheltered part of a rock face. The burial is thought to be of the Quillke culture that lived here before the Incas, as Quillke pottery was found alongside the bones, as well as fragments of obsidian.]]></description>
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		<title>Short Film: Machu Picchu Post</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/05/04/short-film-machu-picchu-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 22:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Machu Picchu Post is a short 3D film made at Supinfocom Arles in 2008 by Clement Crocq, Margaux Durand-Rival and Nicolas Novali.

This is the story of the unexpected meeting between a young Peruvian boy living with his llama and a pilot from the airmail flying above the boy's house.]]></description>
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		<title>Choquequirao: Cradle of Gold</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/04/03/choquequirao-cradle-of-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home of the insurgent remains of the Inca empire after the Spanish conquest, the spectacular mountain-top ruins of Choquequirao is a site that is becoming increasingly popular with tourists. Find out more by watching the PromPeru videos below.]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic banned at Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/01/28/plastic-banned-at-machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone with any sense hates plastic bottles - the non-biodegradable waste they cause and the blighting of the landscape when people carelessly throw them away. And you would think people visiting world famous and historic sites such as Machu Picchu would have more respect - but no, one of the first things I noticed when I visited were dozens of plastic bottles on the way up, and yet more scattered around the ruins.]]></description>
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		<title>Machu Picchu, the nature reserve</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2009/01/19/machu-picchu-the-nature-reserve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Machu Picchu: Its more than 32,000 hectares are home to 423 types of birds, 352 kinds of butterflies, 41 species of mammals and 13 species of river creature that are protected by the National Institute of Natural Resources (INRENA). To see them you simply need to travel along the Inca trail, which is offers the best access to the biological reserve.]]></description>
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		<title>Lost ruins of Kantupata</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/12/24/lost-ruins-of-kantupata/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the steepest slopes delays us enough to observe the immensity of the view, and while the wind almost blows us off the mountain, we discover that before our eyes Machu Picchu is in view... but from an angle we have never seen before, not even in photos. The view is, how can I say, from behind. It is really stunning to behold.
Kantupata announces itself with a grand stairway of stone, which once cleaned-up by the archaeologists is truly impressive.
We continued on to a place that has particular impact. A large plaza with a shrine in the centre, surrounded by buildings and walls. Below, with a view of the peaks in the distance, more stone farming terraces unfold, parallel with water fountains similar to those at Wiñay Huayna. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient tomb found in Torontoy, Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/11/28/ancient-tomb-found-in-torontoy-machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team from Peru's National Institute of Culture (INC) working on the ruins of Torontoy in the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, have discovered the tomb of an Inca with full funerary regalia. The gender and age of the tomb's owner has not yet been determined, but found with the body were a number of decorated ceramics and two pins.]]></description>
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		<title>Watch: Secret of the Incas (1954)</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/09/09/watch-secret-of-the-incas-1954/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["An Incan legend states that the Inca Empire was destroyed by the gods when a gold and jeweled starburst was stolen from the Temple of the Sun centuries ago, and that the ancient civilization will be reborn once the treasure is returned. Harry Steele (Charlton Heston), an American adventurer, is seeking the artefact, as is his nemesis Ed Morgan (Thomas Mitchell), along with Elena Antonescu (Nicole Maurey), an Iron Curtain refugee." - Watch the full movie here.]]></description>
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		<title>Machu Picchu is Mexican? Hollywood thinks so.</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/07/30/machu-picchu-is-mexican-hollywood-thinks-so/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2008/07/30/machu-picchu-is-mexican-hollywood-thinks-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walt Disney's Beverly Hills Chihuahua (trailer) will perhaps re-educate the next US generation to enlighten them of this fact that has been carefully researched by Hollywood writers.]]></description>
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		<title>Machu Picchu Virtual Tour</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/07/26/machu-picchu-virtual-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've found this really great video of a walk around the ruins of the
Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. Enjoy.]]></description>
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		<title>Treasures of Peru video</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2008/02/26/treasures-of-peru-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join Dan Cruickshank in a journey across Peru in which he discovers what he considers to be some of the world's greatest treasures.]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity visits continue at Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2007/09/30/celebrity-visits-continue-at-machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Superman is the latest in a line of celebrities to visit the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu this year, as he takes time out to contemplate saving the world in his latest comic book adventure.]]></description>
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		<title>INC destroys Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/17/inc-destroys-machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have read my previous criticisms (1, 2) of the Instituto Nacional de Cultura Cusco (INC), and if those were not enough I have yet more to add. I think this reflects poorly on the work they do, or rather don't do.

Where oh where do we begin...

INC destroys Machu Picchu's star attraction and unique artefact (CNN, BBC)
In September 2000 the greedy INC accepted a large payment to allow a company to enter the sacred ruins of Machu Picchu to film a beer commercial. The fact this might ruin the day of thousands of tourists who paid through their teeth to be there for this one and only day didn't bother them, why would it, they had already taken their money...]]></description>
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		<title>Intihuatana</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/11/intihuatana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Intihuatana (or Intiwatana) is referred to as the Hitching Post of the Sun - as that is what many experts think its function was, to symbolically tie the sun the the earth at the two equinoxes so it could not move further in the sky. At the time of an equinox the perfectly carved 14 degree angled stone has no shadow, yet does have one all day and all year round when not an equinox.]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Rocks</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/11/sacred-rocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In front of Huayna Picchu is a massive slab of rock that is said to take the shape of the mountains behind it. This rock, like all large rocks, was sacred to the Incas.
A major part of Inca beliefs were that such rocks store vast sums of energy that can be transferred to people. All things in nature were similarly thought to be special in some way, from water to the Sun.
Of course, the biggest rocks that exist are the Andes themselves, and this is why the Incas built everything at the tops of them, the pinnacles of the stores of energy.]]></description>
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		<title>Hiking Huayna Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/11/hiking-huayna-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if climbing from Aguas Calientes to Machu Picchu, then from Machu Picchu to the Sun Gate on a mostly empty stomach was not enough, I was determined to hike to the top of Huayna Picchu.]]></description>
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		<title>Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/10/machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Machu Picchu means "old peak" in the Inca language of Quechua, as Huayna Picchu the thin point mountain at the other side of the ruins means "young peak". These are not Inca names, we don't know what they called the mountain, nor their city, rather the name was given by a geographer and cartographer working to document the region...]]></description>
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		<title>Free Custom Tours of Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/10/free-custom-tours-of-machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking back from the Sun Gate, back to where we arrived at the end of our long climb from the valley below, we found ourselves at the Watchman's hut. From here we got our first proper postcard view of the ruins.
By now, thousands of day-trippers had arrived on the trains from Cusco, and any chance of a good photo was ruined. But there is a massive benefit to having to cope with all these people - free custom tours of Machu Picchu!]]></description>
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		<title>The Fog at the Sun Gate</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/09/the-fog-at-the-sun-gate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We arrived to Machu Picchu to see it shrouded in fog. Already exhausted from our walk from the valley below, we climbed down onto some Inca farming terraces, just below the famous Watchman's Hut and sat down in the rain to rest. We could see next to nothing of the ruins, so we decided to take a walk in the direction of the Sun Gate, from where groups of hikers were arriving from their days of hiking the Inca Trail.]]></description>
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		<title>The Long Climb to Machu Picchu</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/08/the-long-climb-to-machu-picchu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To walk to Machu Picchu from Aguas Calientes involves a steep continuous climb for an hour and a half in the rain. You can take the US$12 bus instead for a five minute journey, but that's more than what two hour-long bus rides in one of the most expensive cities in the world costs.

We set off early, just before 6am, minutes after dawn. This was 30 minutes later than planned, but we hoped to arrive no more than 30 minutes after the 6:30am opening time of the ruins. There were few other tourists awake, and the buses were just preparing for their day. It looked like we were going to be one of the first ones there. We set off from the town to the river, vaguely aware of where we were going.]]></description>
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		<title>Aguas Calientes</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/08/aguas-calientes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aguas Calientes often calls itself Machu Picchu Pueblo as its sole purpose is to be a base from which to visit the Machu Picchu ruins on the nearby Machu Picchu mountain.]]></description>
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		<title>Problems with INC and Monopolistic Train Travel</title>
		<link>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/05/problems-with-inc-and-monopolistic-train-travel/</link>
		<comments>http://enperublog.com/2006/11/05/problems-with-inc-and-monopolistic-train-travel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stuart]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Cusco we planned to take the bus to Pisaq, where we would stay one night and wake up early to see the market before hundreds of old large red day-trippers arrive. From there we would see the rest of the Sacred Valley and arrive in Ollantaytambo, the last town on the road to Machu Picchu from which The Great Peruvian Con game begins, where a monopolistic train company, PeruRail, takes you the rest of the way in low-quality trains for a high price. But all did not go according to plan.]]></description>
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