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Peru closes Machu Picchu as anti-government protests grow
"Hundreds of tourists remain stranded after the international airport near the city of cuzco in Peru, was partially closed due to ongoing demonstrations. Anti government protesters marching, aguas caliente, a town near Cusco. The culture ministry says it had closed the conscious most famous tourist attraction, Machu Picchu, as well as the Inca trail leading up to the site to protect it says the safety of tourists and the population in general. Local officials are teams of guaranteed safety of tourists in the city of Cusco, at least looking out for the safety of each and every one of them. Some 417 visitors have been stuck at Machu Picchu and unable to get out more than 300 of them foreigners. The closure of the Incan Citadel, the dates back to the 15th century, and is often referred to as one of the 7 wonders of the world, comes as protesters from outlying regions, descend on the capital Lima. I'm Charles De Ledesma
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"Peru shut down famous tourist site, Machu Picchu. These are your world headlines for maybe seeing you use. The ongoing violent protests in Peru against the country's new president have shut down one of the country's most famous sites Machu Picchu indefinitely. The government has also closed the Inca trail leading up to it in order to protect visitors and citizens. Hundreds of thousands of people were out on the streets in Israel and one of the country's biggest anti government protests. Demanding an end to the ruling coalition, which is the most right wing and religious nationalist in its history. One protester calling it a dangerous government. People across China are ushering in the lunar new year on Sunday, the government lifted at zero COVID policy earlier this month, making it easier for families to gather and celebrate. And standing upsets in the Australian open with top seed Iger tech now out losing to Elena ribena in the fourth round. American coco golf who was one of the favorites to win the title is also out. I'm Lama Hasan at the ABC News foreigner in London. Now to the war in Ukraine, where Kyiv is renewing its call to the west to send takes. ABC's Matt Gutman is in Ukraine with the latest. Vladimir Putin's willingness to sacrifice his countrymen and Ukraine coming into focus. U.S. officials saying over a 150,000 Russian dead or wounded, possibly nearing 200,000. The chairman of the joint chiefs general Mark milley calling it a bloody war for both sides, but for Russia, it's turning into an absolute catastrophe. It officials expect Putin to throw more troops into the fight ahead of an expected offensive in the coming weeks, Ukraine pleading for tanks
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Dozens killed in protests against Peru's government as unrest continues
"Anti government protests are spreading in Peru. I'm Ben Thomas with the latest. Riot police firing tear gas as demonstrators for rocks in the tourist city of Cusco. Protests against Peruvian president Dina bell Arte's government began a month ago after she replaced Pedro Castillo ousted as president and arrested following his attempt to dissolve Congress and head off impeachment. So far 47 people have been killed in the protests, health officials in Cusco say 16 civilians and 6 police officers were injured after protesters tried to take over this city's airport. Many foreign tourists come to Cusco to see sites that include the inconsiderate of Machu Picchu. I'm
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"A rush of migrants at the Texas Mexico border is pushing the country's immigration system to the breaking point. The mayor of El Paso declared a state of emergency over the weekend saying, there are already hundreds of asylum seekers living on the city streets and a flood of new migrants are expected to arrive with the likely end of a rule known as title 42 that enforced expulsions. The cold was deadly, says Christopher Silva, who spent the night on sheltered. How many people are sleeping here tonight, do you know? More or less. Around 50. 50. If they weren't here, where would they be? I'd probably be outside. Business owner Tony Gutierrez turned his recycling plant into a makeshift shelter. What did you think when you went down? We have more space. We need to clean up fast. CBS lilia Luciano, a federal court declined to extend the implementation of title 42 last week. Today, a coalition of Republican led border states plans to appeal that ruling to the Supreme Court. Hundreds of tourists who have been stranded in the ancient city of Machu Picchu are being evacuated after Peru was plunged into a state of emergency following the ousting of that country's president. Train services and airports are reopening and organizers say their prioritizing care of the elderly, people with health conditions and families with children. Civil unrest swept Peru earlier this month when former president Pedro Castillo was impeached and arrested. His removal from power accelerated long simmering political tensions in the country. Violent protests erupted against Peru's new government, shutting down essential services and stranding around 300 tourists from around the world in that ancient city. A 70 year old man is dead following a crash in Howard county near the Carroll county line, police say a car making a left turn, plowed into another car driven by Arthur Arthur lander men of sykesville. He was killed, the driver of the other car suffered non life threatening injuries
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"Right here at 8 20, where facts matter. NBC News radio, I'm Tammy trujillo, the northeastern U.S. is expected to be clear of a big snowstorm by the end of the weekend. On Saturday, more heavy snow hit areas like New York and New England. It all comes though as forecasters are warning of a potential blockbuster storm system that could strike the central and eastern U.S. in the coming days with the potential to complicate holiday travel. Rent prices are going down, as according to real estate marketplace Zillow, which reported the largest one month drop in at least 7 years last month. The company's observed rent index showed prices dipped by .4% from October to November. Officials from both sides of the political aisle warn of a humanitarian crisis unfolding in El Paso, Texas, immigrant groups report thousands of migrants are being forced to sleep on the freezing streets of the city because the shelters are overwhelmed. There are also thousands waiting in Mexico to cross the border. It's because the policy known as title 42, which gave officials authority to turn away any immigrant is set to expire next week. Hundreds of tourists are stranded in Machu Picchu, NBC's Molly hunter has the latest. Deadly protests across Peru now paralyzing travel and stranding American tourists in Machu Picchu. After former president Pedro Castillo was impeached, arrested, and detained earlier this month, his supporters took to the streets, clashing with police so far more than 20 people have been killed. The mayor of Machu Picchu has requested helicopters to evacuate tourists from the site of the 15th century Inca Citadel in the Andes Mountains as the only way out of town is by train in that service has been suspended. SpaceX is sending more than 50 Starlink satellites into orbit and breaking a record at the same time. Elon Musk's private space company launched a falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center and landed the first stage of the booster on the drone ship, just read the instructions for
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"The country. The market is ending the week with stocks lower at the closing bell the Dow lost 282 points to 32 9 20. I'm Brian shook. Hundreds of tourists are stranded in Machu Picchu due to protests in Peru, former president Pedro Castillo was impeached and arrested earlier this month after he announced he was going to dissolve Congress. Machu Picchu mayor Darwin Bacchus that people from all over the world, including Americans are among those stranded. Baca has requested helicopters to get the tourists out of the city because the only way out of town is by train, and that service has been suspended. The Chicago mayor's race is heating up, Perry Williams has the details. Despite recent polls showing congressman Jesus chuy Garcia the FrontRunner incumbent mayor Lori Lightfoot isn't taking it lightly. You look at somebody like sheer Garcia, nice guy. But he has no business being the mayor of our city. 40 plus years as a public servant, name his one signature accomplishment on behalf of the residents of the city. You're not going to find it. She also questions a congressional contribution to Garcia from the now indicted head of FTX crypto. Garcia's campaign says he had nothing to do with the FTX owners independent expenditures. Perry Williams reporting. It may be the holiday season but financial buzz says New York is the Grinch east city of all. After looking at data from 50 cities, New York had the lowest score at 18.9, but New Yorkers don't see it that way. That's
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"The Scottish heritage. Brian, hey, what's the big deal about scotch in Scotland? Well, it is our national drink. There are many other countries that produce whisky in Scotland. We spell our whisky without an E and I think everybody else spells it with a knee, WH ISK EY, we have no E where it actually came from. Nobody will ever quite know, but the earliest recordings we have of the Bing production of malt whisky end of the 1400s. And it is just a huge commercial business for Scotland and has taken off hugely in the last ten years, 12 years with emerging markets, emerging markets meaning wet. Cupping from market sort of opened up particularly with breakdown of Eastern Europe, what was so union Russia huge important of Scottish whisky, so too is China, which is an open market and these emerging markets Brazil, India, these places as well. So because the brand scotch whisky is just so good or is it actually better and? Is actually better. Yeah. Well, of course. But it is definitely the status symbol. Just blended whisky. Scottish mark was a single malt as a big status symbol in these countries. No, you're all Scottish tour guides and I would imagine when you take your groups around and your tourists around they're all checking out the scotch. I'm just curious, and you can be candid with me personally. What do you think about scotch? When you're enjoying a drink, Liz lister? Well, it wouldn't be my drink of choice, but I must confess that when we take to a strange Scotland, I love the theater of whisky tasting. You know, you go to Italy and you have wine tasting in Scotland, you're looking at the lakes of the whisky, the color of it, the smell, and then the signs of releasing the flavors from it. So even if you don't protect the love it, the idea of sitting sipping a scotch by a ruling fire in some small pop somewhere, it's very definitely a theater. It almost makes you want to speak like Robbie burns. Absolutely. Whisky and freedom gang together said Robert Burns. Inspired poets very much part of our tradition. You know, I took the literary tour in Edinburgh, which is a wonderful tour and they go from pub to pub and you've got these actors and actresses quoting great Scottish literature and the big discussion was what came first. The love of scotch are the love of literature because they kind of go hand in hand. But I think the love of scotch whisky, I would actually say there's a there's a bit of a legend that the original whisky or usga bar came in 6th century with the Irish. What is that? For the water of life, whisky is the Anglo fied version of the gallic which came from Ireland originally. So it becomes whisky. The water of life. It means the water of life. And it was thought that it was first distilled by the monks from a dismal purposes. Still take it from medicinal practices today. I think Brian, what's your take personally on scotch whisky? And it wouldn't be my drink of choice. And I would fully accept that I'm not a connoisseur of whisky, but I would say the times I love a whisky is when I've been outdoors, maybe a good walk up a hill and it's cold and you come in and you put the fire on and it has got a lovely warming taste. The fascination of the whisky is that it goes from area to area, distillery to distillery, they all have a different taste to them, so you can distinguish that even if you're not a connoisseur. I love whisky. Yes, you can. And can you distinguish the taste as well as the quality? Do you know what a good whisky would taste like? I probably wouldn't, but taste wise you could tell just from the distilling process, the yeast that's been used. So none of you are huge, whisky, consumers yourself. But what sort of place has it had in your family heritage? When you think about your grandparents and this sort of thing, what was it like? They used to say that whisky was used for treating like a currency. They just treated with it, and I would say that was used up to the present day because my father was a bank manager. And if he passed a customer onto a lawyer or an insurance agent, they didn't use commission or anything vulgar like money. It was cases of single malt whisky, and my father always had a lot of single malt whiskies in the cupboard. And it was like, it was like a currency. It wasn't commissions when you passed on customers. It was single malt whisky. Do you think somebody with some nice single malt whisky is a single mulch is that? That's the rules Royce, really. It's not a blended one. It's the one that's pure, it comes from one distillery, and they've all got this different areas of what different characters. So my father would wax poetical about it. You can smell the Heather on the breeze in the soil and you salt from the sea. Because we're at storage and where it's the water effects all the characters. I like that. Because I'm going to all these places around Europe and taste in the beer and taste in the wine and all this. And when I'm in Scotland, I go to a pub and the treat for me is to strike up a conversation with the Scottish person at the bar because they go to the public house to be public and talk. And the easy on trade to a conversation is help me appreciate Scottish whisky. And the pub will have 20 or 30 different scotch whiskies on the list, and you can have that person be your own sort of guide. And it's very easy to taste the character character. But there is also a snobbery about it in that all these bars that will very much promote the malt whisky. The actual fight that media export is blended whisky, and a blended whisky has a secret recipe like Coca-Cola, and they see that molten whisky is a science, but blending whisky is an art. So that would be giving the little extra special that a person who's called the nose and it's all done by using the recipe and then this nose smells the whisky to make sure that there's a consistency in each of the blended whiskies. You know, when you come to Scotland, it's on every choice list. You know, you've got to do the whisky distillery tour or something like this. And in Edinburgh you got the high street in the royal mile. Brian, what are the whisky stops on the royal mile that you would say we should be aware of? Cotton heads is probably the best known of the malt whisky shots, but there's three or four going down the royal mile and they will if you're obviously interested in tasting and what whiskys they will give you small taste of them. They will chalk it through with you. Very, very good shops. There's one, I think it's bank street, the whisky rooms. They'll give you, you know, if you have several teeth, you might have to pay for it also on the rail mall you also have the scotch whisky experience. Now it's a bit Mac Disney. You go through, you go around in a barrel. So if you can't get to distillery, you can do that, but what it does have is the largest collection of whiskies in the world. They were bought by a Brazilian, and when he decided to sell his collection, he offered it first to the Scottish whisky distilleries who banded together and bought this collection which is on shore and it also does an excellent whisky teaspoon. So that's the scotch whisky experience. Yes. People joke, they call it malt Disney. Yes. And it's fun, but I think to find a place like cat and heads where incidentally an expert without all these tour groups around you would make a lot of sense. This is travel with Rick Steves. We're talking scotch whisky, our phone numbers 877-333-7425 and Casey's calling from wilsonville in Oregon. Casey, have you been to Scotland and tasted the
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"Bye. This is travel with Rick Steves. We're talking with Sarah vowell, her book Lafayette in the somewhat United States. Sarah, it's interesting to think about, from an English point of view, what do they think when they looked at America how we were fighting the revolution? I mean, I think, you know, the old story is they just thought they were a bunch of bumpkins, but as early as 1775, the British leadership is writing back to London saying, you know, this is going to be harder than we thought. In a way, my favorite hero from the Revolutionary War is Henry Knox because he was this kid who was a bookseller. He owned an independent bookshop in Boston. He knew there was all this ordinance like cannons and artillery and stuff at fort ticonderoga, which is hundreds of miles away over the Berkshire mountains, and when Boston was under siege, he told Washington I'll go get that weaponry. You know, this bookseller. And Washington basically sure kid go ahead. Go for it. And then suddenly, you know, a few weeks later, Henry Knox and his brother had built all these weird sleds to haul all these cannons over the Berkshire mountains in winter back to Boston. And Washington has them in the middle of the night, put up on top of this hill pointing down at Boston where the British are ensconced. And they wake up and they see all these cannons pointing down at them and they get on a ship for Canada right away and are out of there. And Henry Knox becomes the head of the artillery of a wonder kid. Yeah, but he was a bookseller. As travelers, let's just talk travel for a moment. Sure. If you want to go to the sites of the American Revolution, what are some of the great images and artifacts and collections that you'd recommend? Well, let's see, from the Franco American standpoint, you know, the high point of that alliance is at Yorktown when the French and American forces gather and get cornwallis just surrender and so they're at Yorktown near Yorktown battlefield where there's a French cemetery. Actually there were more French sailors and soldiers at Yorktown than American ones. So that's a great battlefield. It's a national park to visit. With the information center to give you something. Yeah, and they also have Washington's tent, his military tent there, which is pretty cool. Also, obviously, independence hall, you can't forget independence hall. You wrote that there's a cool quote by Ben Franklin. Oh, well, when they had the constitutional convention after the war, Washington hit the chair, he was sitting in. It's probably my favorite artifact from that era. Ben Franklin said, while they were, you know, these months of bickering about what the constitution was going to be and what was going to be in it. He would look at Washington's chair and the carving of the sun on the back of Washington's chair. And Franklin would wonder, is it a setting sun or a rising sun, meaning like is this the end of this experiment or the beginning and Franklin said, you know, once they finally had this document cobbled together that it is a rising sun. It's amazing to think that there are these artifacts that survive and you write about an artifact which is fascinating to me, and it was the key from the Bastille. In the United States. That's in Mount Vernon because Lafayette, he was in charge of like right at the beginning of the revolution, he was in charge of this kind of this police force around Paris and one of the things he was in charge of was the dismantling of the Bastille. Which is the big stony prison that revolutionized tore down mostly symbolically to commit themselves. And he sends the key to Washington saying, we're doing it. We're revolting, you know, look at this and the key to the best deal is now and where is it exactly? In Mount Vernon in Washington's house and it's in kind of the hallway at Mount Vernon. You can see it on the tour. Oh, I love it. You have to look for it. When you go on that tour, I don't know if you've been on the Mount Vernon tour, but they really shovel you through there. I mean, I've had burrito orders that took longer than my tour of Mount Vernon. I think, but it's in there. It just have to be focused. This is travel with Rick Steves. We've been talking with Sarah Valon. Her book is Lafayette in the somewhat United States and you wrote in your book that nowadays Lafayette is a place more than a person. Yeah, it was after that trip of his in 1824 and 25, everything started getting named after him. Towns and counties and I mean, there was this monument to him in Pennsylvania near the battle brand new wine site, which you could also visit. There was I think built in 1895 after he'd been dead for decades and 5000 people show up to the inauguration of this, it looks like a lamp post in nowhere to build country Pennsylvania. So he was a really big deal. But I was also going to say about the places named after him. To me, the most meaningful is Lafayette square Lafayette park across from The White House. And this has been since the suffragists kind of capital of protest in its where we, the people yell at our presidents because it's right across from The White House. It's where the suffragists yelled at Woodrow Wilson and ever since then it's where we protest and try to get our president's attention and not just us, people from other countries where they would get arrested for such behavior come to protest when they are leaders or in town. And so maybe just think about that if maybe you don't like who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue right now, just know that basically that person always has to live across from almost like the embodiment of an Internet comment section. George H. W. Bush was complaining about those damn drums while I was trying to have dinner, you know, protesting the Gulf War. So whoever becomes president has these noisy neighbors always and it's the ones in Lafayette park. Author of Lafayette in the somewhat United States. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. Will cap off today's travel Rick Steves with the help of three tour guides from Scotland. They'll share tips for learning to appreciate their country's whiskys like a real highland connoisseur. That's next on travel with Rick Steves. That was Greek. I'm penny, from Delphi Greece, and I'm traveling with Rick Steves. A melena Benny. The history of Scotland is heavy on battles. For centuries, there have been bloody fights pitting families against one another, clan against clan workers against factory owners and a lot of reasons for holding a grudge against the English. But one tradition that most of us got seemed to hardly agree on is their admiration for a weed ram of good scotch whisky. You can find expert distillers crafting their own special varieties in the highlands. In the islands and in the cities of Scotland, and to help you tour the tasting rooms of Scotland like an expert, we're joined now by three tour guides, Ryan hay, Hanoi, and Liz lister. Cheers, thanks for joining us. Thank you. I just want to talk about scotch and
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"God, that is just mind-blowing. In the ten years since they first published Mark Adams book turn right at Machu Picchu rediscovering the lost city one step at a time, Mark reports that before the pandemic, the site was becoming crowded with instagrammers and even an international airport was being proposed. But he still sees it as one of the most amazing places on earth. His website is Mark Adams books dot com. Now we've got this legendary city of gold, just how much gold and silver are we talking about, what happened to the gold, describe the scene just in Incan archeology in general and was their goal at Machu Picchu was at a repository for all of this gold. Here's what we don't know. No major cache of gold was ever found. Bingham found, I think, one single bracelet of gold, even though there are rumors in Peru that he took truckloads, train loads of gold out. There was someone who was at Machu Picchu a German named Augusto burns in the 1860s. And he had some sort of mining perspective, which may have been sort of a cover to try to get stuff out of Machu Picchu when they call a wau carro, a guy who steals grave sites. Whether he got anything out of there, we can't know. Whether there was originally any gold up there, we can't know. I mean, those hills, all of those sites in Peru and pretty much everywhere around the world. I've just been picked clean by grave robbers over the centuries. But Bingham was very good at bringing artifacts back because that was a quite a scandal with the Yale. Bingham Brett back like thousands of actual pre Columbian artifacts from the England civilization. He brought back a lot of artifacts. He brought back some pottery and he brought back human remains, and I think that was a very touchy subject. The ironic thing is that Bingham may have brought back artifacts that he purchased from an estate owner near Machu Picchu that came from Machu Picchu, but we don't know because grave robbers may have gone up there taking them brought it down to the estate owner and those are the most beautiful things he actually brought back from Peru because as the site had been pretty much picked clean. They probably just got dispersed all over Peru over the ages. Absolutely. By people picking up shiny stuff and selling it to rich people. And those are things that Yale is actually allowed to hang on to because he bought them legally. But in 2011 for the hundredth anniversary, they had to send back all the other stuff that Bingham took a while on assignment from National Geographic. You approached Machu Picchu, you made a point to approach it as hiram Bingham did. The hard way. Yeah, I mean, it's the old saw about the journey is the experience. You know, that's why something like the Inca trail. If you can get a spot, it's so hard to get a spot nowadays. Can be so amazing because this whole area of the Inca trail Machu Picchu was obviously laid out as some sort of pilgrimage. And if you can do it on foot rather than arriving by train, you know, arrive on train if you have to. But if you can give it four or 5 days and make the walk, you know, it's just that much richer when you walk through that sun gate and you see Machu Picchu for the first time. The revelation of Machu Picchu. Anyone who has been there knows is just, it's like walking into a natural cathedral. It's just mind-blowing and pictures and video can not do it any sort of justice. You know, it's one of those rare things like the Mona Lisa that is better in person than you ever imagined it could be. Mark Adams, thanks so much for joining us and thanks for writing turn right at Machu Picchu. Thanks for having me. We'll explore the whisky trails of Scotland in just a bit. Up next, it's a real treatise author Sarah vowell joins us to tell us how the marquee de Lafayette became a universally beloved figure in a contentious United States. That was nearly 200 years ago when political divides between Americans rose to new heights. Where at 877-333-7425 on travel with Rick Steves. It was a contentious presidential election that threatened to split apart the United States, but a visit from an old friend reminded Americans of who they were and what their revolution was all about. That was in 1824 when Marquis de Lafayette from France was invited back to America. A generation earlier, he served as a hero in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Lafayette was a close friend of George Washington and even named his son after him. On his return to America, a generation later, Lafayette was welcomed back as an old friend by more than half the population of New York City. Author Sarah vowell believes that Lafayette still has a lot to tell us about who we are as a nation. She's written Lafayette in the somewhat United States and joins us now on travel with Rick Steves to remind us of one of the great figures in the founding of our nation who just happens to come from France. Sarah welcome. Hi. Hey, when you talk about Lafayette, he's a figure in the Revolutionary War, but in your book, you make a big deal about an amazing scene in 1824. That was a generation later, a generation after we won our independence and you describe how half of New York City came out to see him to welcome him back from France. Why would it be such a big deal for a French man to come back a generation later? He did come back as an older gentleman and he was invited back by president Monroe on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the revolution. So kind of to start ginning things up for the patriotic fervor, you know, that I guess those of us who lived through the bicentennial will recall a bit, you know? He was also at that point in 1824 when he arrived back in New York harbor. He was the last living general from the Continental Army, so he was, he was the last of those guys. And James Monroe was the last president who was one of the founding fathers, you know, James Monroe had crossed the Delaware with George Washington and all that. So it was kind of a celebration of what the country had become, but there was this definite nostalgic element to it. And also, because he was a French man and he came over as a teenager to volunteer with Washington's army. He kind of belonged to everybody. So there wasn't he wasn't a northerner or a southerner, you know. And also he had kind of been almost adopted as George Washington's son or son figure. And so he was so well beloved and he was basically a celebrity and it was a huge big deal that it was a tour around all of the states and every night was a party. There was a souvenir racket with gloves with his face on them or commemorative plates or songs, you know, every town he would enter into a town and there would be a new song written about his entrance into that town. And it was a really big deal. And in fact, that's kind of how he got onto the topic because I once went to Herman Melville's house and the Berkshire's and on display in one of the cases is the little dress that Melville's wife wore as a baby when she was presented to Lafayette when he was in Boston. And I also didn't know about this return trip. And so it turned out to be this huge touchstone for a whole generation of Americans. So in 1824 was the country in need of, I mean, we're always thinking about how divided our country is now, was there a sense that this man he's, like you said, he's not north. He's not south. He didn't represent a particular party. He just represented America, didn't he? Yeah, he landed here pretty much smack dab in the middle of what's arguably the most rancorous presidential election in our history, the election of 1824, and it was this very weird election where, for the first time, people were going to have to elect a president who wasn't a founding father. And in fact, that election had to be decided in the House of Representatives because there wasn't Andrew Jackson won the popular vote. Imagine what that's like. Someone could win the popular revolt and not be president because he didn't have a clear electoral majority. And so it had to be decided in the House of Representatives. So that whole trip as Lafayette's kind of traveling around, there's all this really mean commentary in every newspaper and the whole country's divided. And when the election was after the election happened and there wasn't a president, you know, they run into these Jackson supporters in Pennsylvania and they're like, oh, if the house doesn't give Jackson the presidency, we're taking our bayonets
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"Treatment. After all, it was his magazine that devoted a special issue in 1913 to what was considered one of the greatest archeological finds of the 20th century. Mark thought it would make a great story to revisit the perilous jungle and mountain route Bingham took a hundred years earlier. The only problem was up until then, Mark had never even slept in a tent. Mark Adams wrote his book turn right at Machu Picchu about his adventure, and he joins us now on travel with Rick Steves to tell us about it. Mark, welcome. Thanks for having me. Set the scene. Who was hiram Bingham and what did he discover? So hiram Bingham is a history lecturer at Yale in the early part of the 20th century. You know, this is sort of the golden age of exploration. People are going off to the South Pole and doing things like that, finding rivers in Africa. Bingham is very driven. He wants to make a name for himself and he focuses on South America. He's in South America in 1909 and hears a story of the lost city of the Incas, which was supposedly a mountaintop to which the Incas ran with all sorts of treasure when the Spanish conquistadors invaded with pizarro in 1532. Supposedly the treaties grew over and this great treasure was lost forever. So he hears this story and decides he's going to come back in 1911 and look for velocity of the Incas, which he knew under the name of vilcabamba. And he spends that summer looking for vilcabamba, and he goes to three separate locations. And along the way, he hears a tip that there's an interesting set of ruins on a sort of mountain ridge along the urubamba river outside of Cusco in Peru, and this innkeeper takes him up there, and he says, well, what do you think? And he squints, and he can't see it at first, and then he looks and boom. There's Machu Picchu and he's maybe maybe not the first non Peruvian to see the ruins of Machu Picchu. Wow. We say hiram Bingham discovered it, but it was well known by local people. He just discovered it. Yeah, I mean, when he got up there, there were three families up there living. Growing peppers and tomatoes in the ruins of Machu Picchu. Oh man, they must have just blown them away, but you didn't just excellently get their hand to hike quite a ways to get there. Now, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's 2000 feet up from the river. So he put in a full day's work. The thing that he did, though, that was so smart, was he brought his camera with him. And this is the early days of National Geographic magazine. He goes to meet Gilbert grosvenor at National Geographic, who's the great mind there. And Grover immediately sees the potential of Machu Picchu, sends Bingham back in 1912. They give it a whole issue. Wow. Even with a fold out of the ruins. And that's what makes Machu Picchu famous. And he was a professor at right, so he had credibility and he was a lecturer at Yale. Yeah, the funny thing is they had denied him a full professorship. So he was a little bit more driven because of that. Describe your mission because a lot of people know about Machu Picchu and everything, but you were more looking at hiram Bingham's experience in actually roughing it and imagining what we have to get there a hundred years ago. What was your agenda there? Well, you know, I was working as an editor at National Geographic adventure magazine, the late lamented travel magazine. It was weird because I would be passing judgment on things like camp stoves and sleeping bags and such. And I'd never actually slept in a tent. So I thought, you know, I'm 41 years old, if I'm ever gonna go out and have any sort of adventure, now's the time to do it. You know, my wife is from Peru. I saw the hundredth anniversary of Bingham was coming up. And I thought, you know, this is a chance to go down there and see how much of what Bingham saw is still the way it was and how much has changed. And the very surprising answer was, not much has changed. Once you get outside of the immediate vicinity of Machu Picchu and all the tourism infrastructure that's there, you know, you've got guys who are digging rose to plant potatoes the same way they did in 1700. And when I went down to the jungle to a spiritual pampa, which is the site of the vilcabamba, the lost city, the head archeologist there told me if guys with bowl cuts wearing dresses come out of the jungle, run. Because they live by their own rules and some of them have never seen a white man. And that was probably advice given to being him also. Yeah. Absolutely. And that's within 50 miles of Machu Picchu. He wrote Bingham started out as a martini explorer and turned out to be a real adventure. What's that and how so? That would determine that my guy John lieber's came up with he was thinking of a guy he knew who at the end of the day like to have a nice chilled glass of vodka. I said, you know, if you're going to be somewhere where you have ice to chill a glass of vodka, that's not a real adventure. And that's where we got into the discussion of what is the difference between a tourist and what is a traveler. This is travel with Rick Steves. We're talking with Mark Adams and his book is turn right at Machu Picchu. Mark's website is Mark Adams books dot com. He marked when you're doing something like learning about Machu Picchu and trying to get an appreciation of it. I would think you do some general study to gain an appreciation of pre Columbian civilizations in general as they relate to Europe, before 1492. Because I always feel like we think that we're going into primitive zones when in actuality some of these civilizations were arguably as sophisticated as the civilizations that these European conquistadors were coming from. Yeah, it's funny, you know, for a long time historians said that because the Incas did not have the wheel and they did not have a written language, they were not a real civilization, even though they had conquered the largest empire ever known in the western hemisphere. In recent years, they've realized that they were just using a different system of record keeping. They had these things called quipus, which were sort of nodded, colored cords made of different fibers. We don't know a 100% how these things work because during the Spanish inquisition, most of them were confiscated and burned. I think there are only 800 or so known in the entire world right now. The secret weapons of the Incas were a engineering, you know, look at the ruins of Machu Picchu. There are earthquakes down there, and those buildings are made as they say in Peru to dance. They don't fall down because they're constructed to dance, even though the stones are so close that you can't fit a credit card between two of them. The other secret weapon of the Incas was organization. They were the greatest accountants of the ancient world. When the Spaniards arrived in 1532, the ink has had storehouses filled with food and clothing to last for 20 years, and they had these quipus keeping records of everything that they had. And the Spaniards were just blown away. They're like, this is the most organized place we've ever seen in our entire lives. This Machu Picchu aligned with the sun like Stonehenge does. You know, it's very interesting. There's an anthropologist named Johann reinhard who discovered that Machu Picchu is probably what we call a sacred landscape. You know, the mountains are positioned in certain places. The buildings are constructed along certain sun lines for the solstice. If you go there on June 21st and stand above what's called the torreon, the most impressive building at Machu Picchu. It's like Indiana Jones. There's a beam of light that comes through a rectangular window and shines a perfect rectangle on this sort of base, the stone base. That's something is obviously been cracked off of. We don't know what it was. It may have been a statue of the emperor who had Machu Picchu built. But it's just so incredible the way that sun shoots down certain corridors on certain important days of the year. Just hocus pocus or accidental, they understand. No, no, no, no, no. Designed this with that in mind, and even if we don't absolutely. It is really quite astounding. They chose the site and then they designed
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"Steves. Sarah vowell explains how they're probably wouldn't have been a United States without the help of the French. We'll get to know why the Marquis de Lafayette became an American hero, as well as the namesake for many American towns, squares, and boulevards. And Friends from Scotland raise a glass with us with tips for touring the scotch whisky tasting rooms across their country. That's a little later in the hour. As an editor at National Geographic, Mark Adams figured the Centennial of hiram Bingham's famous find at Machu Picchu deserved a special treatment. After all, it was his magazine that devoted a special issue in 1913 to what was considered one of the greatest archeological finds of the 20th century. Mark thought it would make a great story to revisit the perilous jungle and mountain route Bingham took a hundred years earlier. The only problem was up until then, Mark had never even slept in a tent. Mark Adams wrote his book turn right at Machu Picchu about his adventure, and he joins us now on travel with Rick Steves to tell us about it. Mark, welcome. Thanks for having me. Set the scene. Who was hiram Bingham and what did he discover? So hiram Bingham is a history lecturer at Yale in the early part of the 20th century. You know, this is sort of the golden age of exploration. People are going off to the South Pole and doing things like that, finding rivers in Africa. Bingham is very driven. He wants to make a name for himself and he focuses on South America. He's in South America in 1909 and hears a story of the lost city of the Incas, which was supposedly a mountaintop to which the Incas ran with all sorts of treasure when the Spanish conquistadors invaded with pizarro in 1532. Supposedly the treaties grew over and this great treasure was lost forever. So he hears this story and decides he's going to come back in 1911 and look for velocity of the Incas, which he knew under the name of vilcabamba. And he spends that summer looking for vilcabamba, and he goes to three separate locations. And along the way, he hears a tip that there's an interesting set of ruins on a sort of mountain ridge along the urubamba river outside of Cusco in Peru, and this innkeeper takes him up there, and he says, well, what do you think? And he squints, and he can't see it at first, and then he looks and boom. There's Machu Picchu and he's maybe maybe not the first non Peruvian to see the ruins of Machu Picchu. Wow. We say hiram Bingham discovered it, but it was well known by local people. He just discovered it. Yeah, I mean, when he got up there, there were three families up there living. Growing peppers and tomatoes in the ruins of Machu Picchu. Oh man, they must have just blown them away, but you didn't just excellently get their hand to hike quite a ways to get there. Now, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's 2000 feet up from the river. So he put in a full day's work. The thing that he did, though, that was so smart, was he brought his camera with him. And this is the early days of National Geographic magazine. He goes to meet Gilbert grosvenor at National Geographic, who's the great mind there. And Grover immediately sees the potential of Machu Picchu, sends Bingham back in 1912. They give it a whole issue. Wow. Even with a fold out of the ruins. And that's what makes Machu Picchu famous. And he was a professor at right, so he had credibility and he was a lecturer at Yale. Yeah, the funny thing is they had denied him a full professorship. So he was a little bit more driven because of that. Describe your mission because a lot of people know about Machu Picchu and everything, but you were more looking at hiram Bingham's experience in actually roughing it and imagining what we have to get there a hundred years ago. What was your agenda there? Well, you know, I was working as an editor at National Geographic adventure magazine, the late lamented travel magazine. It was weird because I would be passing judgment on things like camp stoves and sleeping bags and such. And I'd never actually slept in a tent. So I thought, you know, I'm 41 years old, if I'm ever gonna go out and have any sort of adventure, now's the time to do it. You know, my wife is from Peru. I saw the hundredth anniversary of Bingham was coming up. And I thought, you know, this is a chance to go down there and see how much of what Bingham saw is still the way it was and how much has changed. And the very surprising answer was, not much has changed. Once you get outside of the immediate vicinity of Machu Picchu and all the tourism infrastructure that's there, you know, you've got guys who are digging rose to plant potatoes the same way they did in 1700. And when I went down to the jungle to a spiritual pampa, which is the site of the vilcabamba, the lost city, the head archeologist there told me if guys with bowl cuts wearing dresses come out of the jungle, run. Because they live by their own rules and some of them have never seen a white man. And that was probably advice given to being him also. Yeah. Absolutely. And that's within 50 miles of Machu Picchu. He wrote Bingham started out as a martini explorer and turned out to be a real adventure. What's that and how so? That would determine that my guy John lieber's came up with he was thinking of a guy he knew who at the end of the day like to have a nice chilled glass of vodka. I said, you know, if you're going to be somewhere where you have ice to chill a glass of vodka, that's not a real adventure. And that's where we got into the discussion of what is the difference between a tourist and what is a traveler. This is travel with Rick Steves. We're talking with Mark Adams and his book is turn right at Machu Picchu. Mark's website is Mark Adams books dot com. He marked when you're doing something like learning about Machu Picchu and trying to get an appreciation of it. I would think you do some general study to gain an appreciation of pre Columbian civilizations in general as they relate to Europe, before 1492. Because I always feel like we think that we're going into primitive zones when in actuality some of these civilizations were arguably as sophisticated as the civilizations that these European conquistadors were coming from. Yeah, it's funny, you know, for a long time historians said that because the Incas did not have the wheel and they did not have a written language, they were not a real civilization, even though they had conquered the largest empire ever known in the western hemisphere. In recent years, they've realized that they were just using a different system of record keeping. They had these things called quipus, which were sort of nodded, colored cords made of different fibers. We don't know a 100% how these things work because during the Spanish inquisition, most of them were confiscated and burned. I think there are only 800 or so known in the entire world right now. The secret weapons of the Incas were a engineering, you know, look at the ruins of Machu Picchu. There are earthquakes down there, and those buildings are made as they say in Peru to dance. They don't fall down because they're constructed to dance, even though the stones are so close that you can't fit a credit card between two of them. The other secret weapon of the Incas was organization. They were the greatest accountants of the ancient world. When the Spaniards arrived in 1532, the ink has had storehouses filled with food and clothing to last for 20 years, and they had these quipus keeping records of everything that they had. And the Spaniards were just blown away. They're like, this is the most organized place we've ever seen in our entire lives. This Machu Picchu aligned with the sun like Stonehenge does. You know, it's very interesting. There's an anthropologist named Johann reinhard who discovered that Machu Picchu is probably what we call a sacred landscape. You know, the mountains are positioned in certain places. The buildings are constructed along certain sun lines for the solstice. If you go there on June 21st and stand above what's called the torreon, the most impressive building at Machu Picchu. It's like Indiana Jones. There's a beam of light that comes through a rectangular window and shines a perfect rectangle on this sort of base, the stone base. That's something is obviously been cracked off of. We don't know what it was. It may have been a statue of the emperor who had Machu Picchu built. But it's just so incredible the way that sun shoots down certain corridors on certain important days of the year. Just hocus pocus or accidental, they understand. No, no, no, no, no. Designed this with that in mind, and even if we don't absolutely. It is really quite astounding. They chose the site and then they designed
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"He hears a tip that there's an interesting set of ruins on a sort of mountain ridge along the urubamba river outside of Cusco in Peru, and this innkeeper takes him up there, and he says, well, what do you think? And he squints, and he can't see it at first, and then he looks and boom. There's Machu Picchu and he's maybe maybe not the first non Peruvian to see the ruins of Machu Picchu. Wow. We say hiram Bingham discovered it, but it was well known by local people. He just discovered it. Yeah, I mean, when he got up there, there were three families up there living. Growing peppers and tomatoes in the ruins of Machu Picchu. Oh man, they must have just blown them away, but you didn't just excellently get their hand to hike quite a ways to get there. Now, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's 2000 feet up from the river. So he put in a full day's work. The thing that he did, though, that was so smart, was he brought his camera with him. And this is the early days of National Geographic magazine. He goes to meet Gilbert grosvenor at National Geographic, who's the great mind there. And Grover immediately sees the potential of Machu Picchu, sends Bingham back in 1912. They give it a whole issue. Wow. Even with a fold out of the ruins. And that's what makes Machu Picchu famous. And he was a professor at right, so he had credibility and he was a lecturer at Yale. Yeah, the funny thing is they had denied him a full professorship. So he was a little bit more driven because of that. Describe your mission because a lot of people know about Machu Picchu and everything, but you were more looking at hiram Bingham's experience in actually roughing it and imagining what we have to get there a hundred years ago. What was your agenda there? Well, you know, I was working as an editor at National Geographic adventure magazine, the late lamented travel magazine. It was weird because I would be passing judgment on things like camp stoves and sleeping bags and such. And I'd never actually slept in a tent. So I thought, you know, I'm 41 years old, if I'm ever gonna go out and have any sort of adventure, now's the time to do it. You know, my wife is from Peru. I saw the hundredth anniversary of Bingham was coming up. And I thought, you know, this is a chance to go down there and see how much of what Bingham saw is still the way it was and how much has changed. And the very surprising answer was, not much has changed. Once you get outside of the immediate vicinity of Machu Picchu and all the tourism infrastructure that's there, you know, you've got guys who are digging rose to plant potatoes the same way they did in 1700. And when I went down to the jungle to a spiritual pampa, which is the site of the vilcabamba, the lost city, the head archeologist there told me if guys with bowl cuts wearing dresses come out of the jungle, run. Because they live by their own rules and some of them have never seen a white man. And that was probably advice given to being him also. Yeah. Absolutely. And that's within 50 miles of Machu Picchu. He wrote Bingham started out as a martini explorer and turned out to be a real adventure. What's that and how so? That would determine that my guy John lieber's came up with he was thinking of a guy he knew who at the end of the day like to have a nice chilled glass of vodka. I said, you know, if you're going to be somewhere where you have ice to chill a glass of vodka, that's not a real adventure. And that's where we got into the discussion of what is the difference between a tourist and what is a traveler. This is travel with Rick Steves. We're talking with Mark Adams and his book is turn right at Machu Picchu. Mark's website is Mark Adams books dot com. He marked when you're doing something like learning about Machu Picchu and trying to get an appreciation of it. I would think you do some general study to gain an appreciation of pre Columbian civilizations in general as they relate to Europe, before 1492. Because I always feel like we think that we're going into primitive zones when in actuality some of these civilizations were arguably as sophisticated as the civilizations that these European conquistadors were coming from. Yeah, it's funny, you know, for a long time historians said that because the Incas did not have the wheel and they did not have a written language, they were not a real civilization, even though they had conquered the largest empire ever known in the western hemisphere. In recent years, they've realized that they were just using a different system of record keeping. They had these things called quipus, which were sort of nodded, colored cords made of different fibers. We don't know a 100% how these things work because during the Spanish inquisition, most of them were confiscated and burned. I think there are only 800 or so known in the entire world right now. The secret weapons of the Incas were a engineering, you know, look at the ruins of Machu Picchu. There are earthquakes down there, and those buildings are made as they say in Peru to dance. They don't fall down because they're constructed to dance, even though the stones are so close that you can't fit a credit card between two of them. The other secret weapon of the Incas was organization. They were the greatest accountants of the ancient world. When the Spaniards arrived in 1532, the ink has had storehouses filled with food and clothing to last for 20 years, and they had these quipus keeping records of everything that they had. And the Spaniards were just blown away. They're like, this is the most organized place we've ever seen in our entire lives. This Machu Picchu aligned with the sun like Stonehenge does. You know, it's very interesting. There's an anthropologist named Johann reinhard who discovered that Machu Picchu is probably what we call a sacred landscape. You know, the mountains are positioned in certain places. The buildings are constructed along certain sun lines for the solstice. If you go there on June 21st and stand above what's called the torreon, the most impressive building at Machu Picchu. It's like Indiana Jones. There's a beam of light that comes through a rectangular window and shines a perfect rectangle on this sort of base, the stone base. That's something is obviously been cracked off of. We don't know what it was. It may have been a statue of the emperor who had Machu Picchu built. But it's just so incredible the way that sun shoots down certain corridors on certain important days of the year. Just hocus pocus or accidental, they understand. No, no, no, no, no. Designed this with that in mind, and even if we don't absolutely. It is really quite astounding. They chose the site and then they designed it on top of that.
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"The lost city of the Incas, which was supposedly a mountaintop to which the Incas ran with all sorts of treasure when the Spanish conquistadors invaded with pizarro in 1532. Supposedly the treaties grew over and this great treasure was lost forever. So he hears this story and decides he's going to come back in 1911 and look for velocity of the Incas, which he knew under the name of vilcabamba. And he spends that summer looking for vilcabamba, and he goes to three separate locations. And along the way, he hears a tip that there's an interesting set of ruins on a sort of mountain ridge along the urubamba river outside of Cusco in Peru, and this innkeeper takes him up there, and he says, well, what do you think? And he squints, and he can't see it at first, and then he looks and boom. There's Machu Picchu and he's maybe maybe not the first non Peruvian to see the ruins of Machu Picchu. Wow. We say hiram Bingham discovered it, but it was well known by local people. He just discovered it. Yeah, I mean, when he got up there, there were three families up there living. Growing peppers and tomatoes in the ruins of Machu Picchu. Oh man, they must have just blown them away, but you didn't just excellently get their hand to hike quite a ways to get there. Now, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's 2000 feet up from the river. So he put in a full day's work. The thing that he did, though, that was so smart, was he brought his camera with him. And this is the early days of National Geographic magazine. He goes to meet Gilbert grosvenor at National Geographic, who's the great mind there. And Grover immediately sees the potential of Machu Picchu, sends Bingham back in 1912. They give it a whole issue. Wow. Even with a fold out of the ruins. And that's what makes Machu Picchu famous. And he was a professor at right, so he had credibility and he was a lecturer at Yale. Yeah, the funny thing is they had denied him a full professorship. So he was a little bit more driven because of that. Describe your mission because a lot of people know about Machu Picchu and everything, but you were more looking at hiram Bingham's experience in actually roughing it and imagining what we have to get there a hundred years ago. What was your agenda there? Well, you know, I was working as an editor at National Geographic adventure magazine, the late lamented travel magazine. It was weird because I would be passing judgment on things like camp stoves and sleeping bags and such. And I'd never actually slept in a tent. So I thought, you know, I'm 41 years old, if I'm ever gonna go out and have any sort of adventure, now's the time to do it. You know, my wife is from Peru. I saw the hundredth anniversary of Bingham was coming up. And I thought, you know, this is a chance to go down there and see how much of what Bingham saw is still the way it was and how much has changed. And the very surprising answer was, not much has changed. Once you get outside of the immediate vicinity of Machu Picchu and all the tourism infrastructure that's there, you know, you've got guys who are digging rose to plant potatoes the same way they did in 1700. And when I went down to the jungle to a spiritual pampa, which is the site of the vilcabamba, the lost city, the head archeologist there told me if guys with bowl cuts wearing dresses come out of the jungle, run. Because they live by their own rules and some of them have never seen a white man. And that was probably advice given to being him also. Yeah. Absolutely. And that's within 50 miles of Machu Picchu. He wrote Bingham started out as a martini explorer and turned out to be a real adventure. What's that and how so? That would determine that my guy John lieber's came up with he was thinking of a guy he knew who at the end of the day like to have a nice chilled glass of vodka. I said, you know, if you're going to be somewhere where you have ice to chill a glass of vodka, that's not a real adventure. And that's where we got into the discussion of what is the difference between a tourist and what is a traveler. This is travel with Rick Steves. We're talking with Mark Adams and his book is turn right at Machu Picchu. Mark's website is Mark Adams books dot com. He marked when you're doing something like learning about Machu Picchu and trying to get an appreciation of it. I would think you do some general study to gain an appreciation of pre Columbian civilizations in general as they relate to Europe, before 1492. Because I always feel like we think that we're going into primitive zones when in actuality some of these civilizations were arguably as sophisticated as the civilizations that these European conquistadors were coming from. Yeah, it's funny, you know, for a long time historians said that because the Incas did not have the wheel and they did not have a written language, they were not a real civilization, even though they had conquered the largest empire ever known in the western hemisphere. In recent years, they've realized that they were just using a different system of record keeping. They had these things called quipus, which were sort of nodded, colored cords made of different fibers. We don't know a 100% how these things work because during the Spanish inquisition, most of them were confiscated and burned. I think there are only 800 or so known in the entire world right now. The secret weapons of the Incas were a engineering, you know, look at the ruins of Machu Picchu. There are earthquakes down there, and those buildings are made as they say in Peru to dance. They don't fall down because they're constructed to dance, even though the stones are so close that you can't fit a credit card between two of them. The other secret weapon of the Incas was organization. They were the greatest accountants of the ancient world. When the Spaniards arrived in 1532, the ink has had storehouses filled with food and clothing to last for 20 years, and they had these quipus keeping records of everything that they had. And the Spaniards were just blown away. They're like, this is the most organized place we've ever seen in our entire lives. This Machu Picchu aligned with the sun like Stonehenge does. You know, it's very interesting. There's an anthropologist named Johann reinhard who discovered that Machu Picchu is probably what we call a sacred landscape. You know, the mountains are positioned in certain places. The buildings are constructed along certain sun lines for the solstice. If you go there on June 21st and stand above what's called the torreon, the most impressive building at Machu Picchu. It's like Indiana Jones. There's a beam of light that comes through a rectangular window and shines a perfect rectangle on this sort of base, the stone base. That's something is obviously been cracked off of. We don't know what it was. It may have been a statue of the emperor who had Machu Picchu built. But it's just so incredible the way that sun shoots down certain corridors on certain important days of the year. Just hocus pocus or accidental, they understand. No, no, no, no, no. Designed this with that in mind, and even if we don't absolutely. It is really quite astounding. They chose the site and then they designed it on top of that.
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"Welcome. Thanks for having me. Set the scene. Who was hiram Bingham and what did he discover? So hiram Bingham is a history lecturer at Yale in the early part of the 20th century. You know, this is sort of the golden age of exploration. People are going off to the South Pole and doing things like that, finding rivers in Africa. Bingham is very driven. He wants to make a name for himself and he focuses on South America. He's in South America in 1909 and hears a story of the lost city of the Incas, which was supposedly a mountaintop to which the Incas ran with all sorts of treasure when the Spanish conquistadors invaded with pizarro in 1532. Supposedly the treaties grew over and this great treasure was lost forever. So he hears this story and decides he's going to come back in 1911 and look for velocity of the Incas, which he knew under the name of vilcabamba. And he spends that summer looking for vilcabamba, and he goes to three separate locations. And along the way, he hears a tip that there's an interesting set of ruins on a sort of mountain ridge along the urubamba river outside of Cusco in Peru, and this innkeeper takes him up there, and he says, well, what do you think? And he squints, and he can't see it at first, and then he looks and boom. There's Machu Picchu and he's maybe maybe not the first non Peruvian to see the ruins of Machu Picchu. Wow. We say hiram Bingham discovered it, but it was well known by local people. He just discovered it. Yeah, I mean, when he got up there, there were three families up there living. Growing peppers and tomatoes in the ruins of Machu Picchu. Oh man, they must have just blown them away, but you didn't just excellently get their hand to hike quite a ways to get there. Now, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's 2000 feet up from the river. So he put in a full day's work. The thing that he did, though, that was so smart, was he brought his camera with him. And this is the early days of National Geographic magazine. He goes to meet Gilbert grosvenor at National Geographic, who's the great mind there. And Grover immediately sees the potential of Machu Picchu, sends Bingham back in 1912. They give it a whole issue. Wow. Even with a fold out of the ruins. And that's what makes Machu Picchu famous. And he was a professor at right, so he had credibility and he was a lecturer at Yale. Yeah, the funny thing is they had denied him a full professorship. So he was a little bit more driven because of that. Describe your mission because a lot of people know about Machu Picchu and everything, but you were more looking at hiram Bingham's experience in actually roughing it and imagining what we have to get there a hundred years ago. What was your agenda there? Well, you know, I was working as an editor at National Geographic adventure magazine, the late lamented travel magazine. It was weird because I would be passing judgment on things like camp stoves and sleeping bags and such. And I'd never actually slept in a tent. So I thought, you know, I'm 41 years old, if I'm ever gonna go out and have any sort of adventure, now's the time to do it. You know, my wife is from Peru. I saw the hundredth anniversary of Bingham was coming up. And I thought, you know, this is a chance to go down there and see how much of what Bingham saw is still the way it was and how much has changed. And the very surprising answer was, not much has changed. Once you get outside of the immediate vicinity of Machu Picchu and all the tourism infrastructure that's there, you know, you've got guys who are digging rose to plant potatoes the same way they did in 1700. And when I went down to the jungle to a spiritual pampa, which is the site of the vilcabamba, the lost city, the head archeologist there told me if guys with bowl cuts wearing dresses come out of the jungle, run. Because they live by their own rules and some of them have never seen a white man. And that was probably advice given to being him also. Yeah. Absolutely. And that's within 50 miles of Machu Picchu. He wrote Bingham started out as a martini explorer and turned out to be a real adventure. What's that and how so? That would determine that my guy John lieber's came up with he was thinking of a guy he knew who at the end of the day like to have a nice chilled glass of vodka. I said, you know, if you're going to be somewhere where you have ice to chill a glass of vodka, that's not a real adventure. And that's where we got into the discussion of what is the difference between a tourist and what is a traveler. This is travel with Rick Steves. We're talking with Mark Adams and his book is turn right at Machu Picchu. Mark's website is Mark Adams books dot com. He marked when you're doing something like learning about Machu Picchu and trying to get an appreciation of it. I would think you do some general study to gain an appreciation of pre Columbian civilizations in general as they relate to Europe, before 1492. Because I always feel like we think that we're going into primitive zones when in actuality some of these civilizations were arguably as sophisticated as the civilizations that these European conquistadors were coming from. Yeah, it's funny, you know, for a long time historians said that because the Incas did not have the wheel and they did not have a written language, they were not a real civilization, even though they had conquered the largest empire ever known in the western hemisphere. In recent years, they've realized that they were just using a different system of record keeping. They had these things called quipus, which were sort of nodded, colored cords made of different fibers. We don't know a 100% how these things work because during the Spanish inquisition, most of them were confiscated and burned. I think there are only 800 or so known in the entire world right now. The secret weapons of the Incas were a engineering, you know, look at the ruins of Machu Picchu. There are earthquakes down there, and those buildings are made as they say in Peru to dance. They don't fall down because they're constructed to dance, even though the stones are so close that you can't fit a credit card between two of them. The other secret weapon of the Incas was organization. They were the greatest accountants of the ancient world. When the Spaniards arrived in 1532, the ink has had storehouses filled with food and clothing to last for 20 years, and they had these quipus keeping records of everything that they had. And the Spaniards were just blown away. They're like, this is the most organized place we've ever seen in our entire lives. This Machu Picchu aligned with the sun like Stonehenge does. You know, it's very interesting. There's an anthropologist named Johann reinhard who discovered that Machu Picchu is probably what we call a sacred landscape. You know, the mountains are positioned in certain places. The buildings are constructed along certain sun lines for the solstice. If you go there on June 21st and stand above what's called the torreon, the most impressive building at Machu Picchu. It's like Indiana Jones. There's a beam of light that comes through a rectangular window and shines a perfect rectangle on this sort of base, the stone base. That's something is obviously been cracked off of. We don't know what it was. It may have been a statue of the emperor who had Machu Picchu built. But it's just so incredible the way that sun shoots down certain corridors on certain important days of the year. Just hocus pocus or accidental, they understand. No, no, no, no, no. Designed this with that in mind, and even if we don't absolutely. It is really quite astounding. They chose the site and then they designed it on top of that.
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Places I Remember with Lea Lane
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"And i'll just read a little from my book places. I remember and maybe it'll give a little feeling of it as the moon began. Its inexorable alignment in front of the sun. We waited dark glasses in place cameras in hand heads up and eleven fifty eight and for the next three hours. Sun peeked in and out of clouds. Teasing us terribly as the moon moves steadily in the sun's pat a sudden low sunset wrapped around us three hundred sixty degrees. Something i had not expected and starting at one twenty seven. Pm or protective glasses came off for the long-awaited much coveted. Two minutes of totality as the sun skirted out of the clouds into clear sky and we stared at our strange looking star and it was gorgeous as we saw. The blackout son is wide open light. Turn violet insects hummed. Shadows became exaggerated as if in moonlight only sharper and the hot humid. Midday air became gently cool. Totality is something everybody should plan to experience at least once and the next one coming up in the states is in twenty twenty. Four less light is so much more so that's one of the ways to have a spiritual experienced by looking at nature and feeling it and that's all around us as we mentioned earlier. How about you. What would be your special memory. I wanted to talk a little bit about bear. Butte which is a holy site near the black hills in south dakota. It's a state park but it also has been a holy site for finds indian tribes for millennia especially lakota. Cheyenne heart of the mountain is reserved for ceremonial use for native peoples. But there's also a hiking trail that you can take to the top. And when i say mountain it's not very impressive mountain. I mean it takes about forty five minutes to get to the top. There are much more scenic areas in the in the black yells especially but it is a place to spiritual power in for me. It is a place that i have returned to again and again my husband's family lives in the black hills in so i began going there soon. After we got together we would make At least a yearly a yearly hike up to the top of bear butte as part of what i respond to. When i'm there is the sense of the passage of time for me. I remember hiking it when i was pregnant and i hike it now with right hair and the fact that i do it every year every summer means that there is a kind of a ritual about it that i think that's an important thing to mention about spiritual travel as well that sometimes there places that you will go only once in your life and sometimes it's the place that you return to again and again the other thing i would say about your abused. It's very moving is to see all the evidence of devotion around you so the trees are full protais for ribbons little bundles tobacco. Which is sacred herb for many indian tribes sometimes at heard the sound of drums. When i've been walking and you know that ceremonies are going on in the ceremonial area down below and so it all gets threaded together when you're there and your story becomes a small part of that larger story that's been wine on there for for many many years so bear butte and again i like to mention it because it's i think people sometimes don't realize how many holy sites we have in the united states in north america. You don't have to get on an airplane..
Places I Remember with Lea Lane
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"Yeah so i'll start with walden pond which is associated with the nineteenth century philosopher and writer. Henry david thoreau and for anyone who has ever read walden and the book to be at walden pond. I think is a pilgrimage and the national park service is a beautiful job of talking about the significance. That would happen there in one sense. It was just a little cabin on the side of a very small pond very small lake. I would say but in another sense what happened. There had reverberations that included. Ghandi's work in india and martin luther king junior's work in the united states. If a fighting against injustice and at all in many ways was deeply influenced by what went on in that small cabin so especially as a writer that felt like a pilgrimage. To me episodes. Turkey has some of the most beautiful greco roman ruins in the mediterranean. It's in ruins. But oh my gosh the ruins. It's so photogenic. So sunlit and evocative of an entirely different era that it's hard not to be transported when you're an emphasis crestone. Colorado is a holy site that not many people have heard of. but i'm sort of on a quested. Have more people be aware of it. It's a very small town in south central colorado. Not too far from the great sand dunes. National monument crestone has more spiritual sites per square inch than i think certainly than anywhere in north america. There are more than twenty different religious groups that have astrum monasteries religious centers of one sort or another there. And the reason is that in the nineteen seventies there was Wealthy philanthropist couple. Who made an offer. They bought a bunch of landon than they made an offer that any spiritual group could have the land for free if they would establish a religious center there so as a result crestone is this wonderful mix of fates and characters and the other thing that drew me there was that it has the only open air nondenominational cremation ground in the united states and so it certainly relates to what you were saying about what you saw on the banks.
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"Hi i'm leah lane award winning travel writer and author of places. I remember tales truths lights from one hundred countries and this podcast we share conversations with travelers about fascinating destinations and memorable experiences around the world. And this episode. We're focusing on the deeper side of travel. The reasons why we travel in addition to it being fun and relaxing. Our guest is laurie. Erickson one of america's top travel writers specializing in spiritual journeys..
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After a 7-Month Wait, This Tourist Got Machu Picchu All to Himself
"Jesse Takayama traveled all the way from Japan to Peru to visit Machu Pichu. Seven months ago. Yesterday, he finally got his wish Officials opened the Inca ruins just for him. Three. Amazing thank you. The country is planning to reopen the site to visitors again in November at 30% of normal
Jason and Alexis
Peru Deports 5 Tourists Accused of Damaging Machu Picchu Temple
"Growth so some tourists traveled to Peru which I've always wanted to go to much you Pete you you know it takes a while I've had friends that have gone in it you know it's a track it's a journey you don't you can't just be dropped in by helicopter it's not a small little trail that you walk from a gift shop too much you Pete you it's an it's an ordeal to get there it's a privilege to be able to do this in your lifetime all in some tourists have been deported from the country thank goodness they found them by now but like I said six hundred year old temple temple in in Peru they went they broke into the temple during the night and then they have remove somehow we don't know how but a large stone has fallen off a part of the temple because of them being in their Messin around and they also pooped in there and I okay so destructive behavior you know let me just say you know if you're a teenager and you're a kid and you do this kind of stuff you're going the wrong way he need to be turned in the right direction that's one thing okay it's a little forgivable you know because your brain still growing in your an idiot but these are grown adults the other adults who are doing something like this and it infuriates me they should be put on a no fly list and they don't get to go anywhere else so they did find these guys they did find them yes and they jacked them out of the country as they should well explain the process of getting there I mean is it is a hiking walking yeah it's a you know this wasn't found Intel gosh the history of March you Pete you it was undiscovered for a very long time and right I'm just wondering where is the furthest away runner closest road how how long do you have to stay on board how their long too and I I love the internet don't they have any portapotties or was this egregious on purpose pooping all it's got to be agree just on the edge if they had to go that bad they could have gone outside of it right you know what I mean like intentional right now what I mean yeah because usually you would run out into the bushes and find a lawyer or something and and leave tell us about it yeah like I almost had to do it cut right lasted two years soon or are they should do what I do and have a Mister chair which is a a to a toilet seat on the camp stool yeah you can go anywhere then so if you want to get to the temple looks like its the hiking their you know you've got at least an hour okay hike in nine if you want to go to the temple of the moon it's three hours so when the mentally what is wrong with people I mean it it's like window Joe beaver of Pete in that month bucket for that more maintenance guide have to clean up I mean I get the whole teenager thing I in your right their their brains are still growing but we were all teenagers and I gotta tell ya I don't think I would ever I know I know I can win this wasn't majors this with these no but I'm saying yeah but yeah well that even more but even as an adult how were you raised raised you what what pack of wolves raised you but you think it would be all right to do that there's just fundamentally something not right with you I don't
Woody and Company
Peru Deports 5 Tourists Accused of Damaging Machu Picchu Temple
"And there was a group of terrorists that are actually being deported after desecrating the ruins their of much U. P. chill and they snuck into this site it's the six hundred year old temple there temple of the sun and the calls the rock to fall from one of the walls by messing around in there and then one of the tourist actually pooped inside of the room to be kidding did I cannot even reading this I saw the story in way what kind of the heathen are you doing something
Woody and Company
Peru Deports 5 Tourists Accused of Damaging Machu Picchu Temple
"And there was a group of terrorists that are actually being deported after desecrating the ruins their of much U. P. chill and they snuck into this site it's the six hundred year old temple there temple of the sun and the calls the rock to fall from one of the walls by messing around in there and then one of the tourist actually pooped inside of the room to be kidding did I cannot even reading this I saw the story in way what kind of the heathen are you doing something