The first photo shows the Macha Picchu Citadel, on a mountaintop in the Peruvian Andes. The mountain in the near background is Huayna Picchu, well-known to be very steep and challenging to climb, with occasional wet "stairs of death" carved into the rock. We made it to the top (~9,000 feet high) and took the following series of photos of the Citadel, successively zoomed out. The terraced structure in the second shot is to the far left, middle of the first shot. In the most zoomed-out view, Macha Picchu looks like a small patch amidst the vast Andes landscape. The Urubamba River flows below, around the Citadel. A gallery of the Macha Picchu citadel itself is in process.
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