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July 22, 2011
The 100th anniversary of the discovery of Machu Picchu
This Sunday, July 24, Peru is celerating the 100th anniversary of the Discovery of Machu Picchu, the Inca city declared one of the new seven wonders of the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
As we showed you last year, the site was beautifully modeled in 3D by Peter Olsen.
To go along with the awesome 3D model, there are a variety of other sites that show off the area in amazing 3D. While this site is in Romanian, you can work your way through it using the arrows at the bottom of the screen and clicking on various parts of the complex.
More impressive is the Quest3D model of the site, though you need to install a special program to make it work which will probably turn quite a few people off.
Ultimately, Peter's Google Earth model is still the best way to see how amazing Machu Picchu really is. You can fly to it using this KML file
, or watch the video below for a quick look at what Peter constructed.
Posted by mickmel at July 22, 2011 6:46 AM
Comments
Posted by: Victor at July 22, 2011 1:30 PM
I'm sure that someone discovered it more than 100 years ago. Surely the local people knew it was there.
Posted by: Rob Smeed at July 25, 2011 6:02 AM
The Google Earth images of this are very good, it really makes me want to go to Peru to see it in real life.
Posted by: Dave Cook at August 1, 2011 5:51 AM
Wow, it even looks beautiful in Google Earth
Posted by: Sue Clark at August 19, 2011 9:32 AM
I would love to go here for a holiday.
Posted by: Glousolar at September 2, 2011 3:00 AM
Looks really beautiful, although a lot of steps to climb - a tiring day of sightseeing. Much easier to just see it on Google Earth!
Posted by: SolarEssex at September 5, 2011 12:25 AM
It must have been pretty amazing discovering it.
Posted by: Solar-e at September 26, 2011 11:36 AM
Not as impressive as The Piramids.
Posted by: Simon at October 17, 2011 4:44 AM
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Regarding "While this site is in Romanian". No, the site, http://elcomercio.pe/machu-picchu/, on a Peruvian domain name, is NOT in Romanian. You may want to search for Romania in Google Earth and find it's quite far from Peru... :)