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San Pedro Market | Machupicchu1 | Machupicchu 2 | Machupicchu 3 | Bustamante Estate | Sacsayhuaman | |
A Sacsayhuaman Panorama photo (above) taken and processed by Martin St-Amant
Want to see his unbelievable 20,000-pixel wide finished version? Panorama (16MB JPEG)
Martin is allowing me to display his work when I give him photo credit...
My photos from my visit are below
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| These stones are HUGE! Moved into exquisitely precise arrangement. |
This is a recently excavated wall opposite the huge snake-like wall of massive stones. |
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| "Tom, can you lift that corner a tad? It looks a little off center-plumb. Thanks..." Humor aside, it shows the scale of these stones. |
The builders obviously knew what they were doing, and how to keep them from falling. |
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| Check out the tight fitting of the puzzle-piece of stones. Peru is mountainous, and does have earthquakes. It hasn't affected these walls.. |
This is Odon's buddy, who sold me a meteorite. The one he sold me was nickel, which has no magnetism. This one was magnetized and repelled his compass away from North. |
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Here's my friend, Edie, purposely in my photo, just to show the scale of the stones. |
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This stone is the largest one on the site, and is estimated to weigh 200 tons. |
To move the corner stone (above), estimated at the low end to weigh 200 tons, you would need a Grove Crane of this model type (a Grove GMK5225) to lift it:
It can lift 225 tons, which would safely move that stone to that position. I'd love to see how they did that hundreds of years ago. I think the Gods had some technology... |
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Looks big, no? How big? |
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This big! |
A fossilized seashell, showing that these rocks were once next to or under the Ocean. Now they are at almost 12,000 feet at this ceremonial site. |
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| A pretty tight seam. CONTRACTOR: "Yeah, move that in close. Closer, yes...great! Good enough for the Gods, hopefully." |
This wall is about 20 feet tall. Think they did an adequate job of stone fitting? Wow... |
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| Some call this place a Fortress, but the Incan Empire spanned thousands of miles north and south and they had no enemies about the time it was built. |
Why build a "Fortress" in the exact center of your Empire? This was a place of worship. It doesn't even make sense as a Fortress, because it is wide open on two ends with no natural defense features. |
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