Peru

One of Peru’s most famous landmarks is Machu Picchu and the Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge offers its guests a truly unique setting with its amazing location adjacent to the ancient Inca citadel. It’s a great choice for those who want to explore all that this amazing world heritage site has to offer. Enjoy the spectacular sunrises and mystical moonlight that fill this sacred area. With luxurious accommodations, majestic views of the mountains and jungle that surround, and amazing Peruvian cuisine, the Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge is the perfect place to explore ancient history as well as relax and unwind in the shadow of the Lost City.

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Machu Picchu (also referred to as “The Lost City of the Incas”) was built sometime around 1450 and is believed to have been originally created as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti. It is Peru’s most visited tourist attraction and is located nearly eight thousand feet above sea level on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley, about fifty miles northwest of Cusco. In 1572, during the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, Machu Picchu was abandoned and its inhabitants were most likely wiped out by smallpox. Although it was known of locally, it was unknown to the outside world until 1911 when American historian Hiram Bingham brought Machu Picchu to international attention. Since it was not plundered by the Spanish conquistadors, the site still contains a great deal of Incan cultural artifacts and is considered a sacred place. In 1971 over 125 square miles including and surrounding Machu Picchu were declared a “Historical Sanctuary” by Peru, protecting the site as well as the amazingly rich local flora and fauna. It was also added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1983 as “an absolute masterpiece of architecture and a unique testimony to the Inca civilization”.

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