Have you ever heard about machu picchu?
Machu Picchu is an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, above the Urubamba River valley. Built in the 15th century and later abandoned, it is renown for its history and dry-stone walls that are huge blocks fused without the use of mortar. The buildings have been standing there for more than 400 years and offer panoramic views. It’s exact former use remains a mystery.
Did you know in 1985 the Spanish king and queen landed their helicopter on Machu Picchu, and for that to happen, they had to remove an entire altar - literally a piece of history just smashed to land an helicopter! Shocking right.
Inca citizens were very smart, and they built a massive temple called Ollantaytambo.
Inca people were never enslaved, they were very proud to help out. When civil war started between the Spanish, they built this temple to store food, water, and more. To combat the Spanish invaders, they used to dam the river and flood the surrounding towns.The only Inca town where many residents still live in the ancient Inca buildings dating back centuries, a great temple built with huge stones in a very fine style and a sanctuary with canals and waterfalls. The origin of the name has several approaches. According to the Aymara language, Ollantaytambo comes from the word ulla-nta-wi, which means "place to look down," the word tambo, is added later. For the Quechua language, the name comes from the word Ollanta (which is the name of an Inca captain, whose story was saved as an oral tradition and written as a drama by Antonio Valdez, a priest of Urubamba in the mid-eighteenth century) and the term, tambo, a Spanish derivation of the word Quechua tampu, which means "city that offers accommodation, food and comfort to people. Ollantaytambo was more important than Machu-picchu.
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