Machu Picchu -- First Glance!

After an arduous journey to the town of Aguas Calientes and from there up to Machu Picchu, we got down to the business of learning about this amazingly engineered city. We had an excellent guide book written by people who have studied Machu Picchu for decades, so we were able to learn a lot about each area we walked through.

Pictures from afar can't capture how big the site really is -- once we were walking among the buildings, it became difficult to take good photos, just because we were so up close to everything.
Boy, I hated this hat. But I had to buy it to keep my scalp from burning off, and my only other real options in Cusco were ones that had retarded embroidery that said "MACHU PICCHU" on them.