Machu Picchu

Sharon McKee, from Northumberland, at Machu Picchu and below, at her desk

Moreover, by facilitating more tourism to Machu Picchu, it could do more harm than good.

When Sunday mudslides destroyed the railway, the only land transportation into Machu Picchu Pueblo, many hotels and restaurants raised prices exorbitantly - separating wealthier tourists who could afford to pay extra from those who spent days sleeping in train cars and waiting for delayed food shipments.

The authorities closed the Inca trail, a popular four-day trek that ends at the Machu Picchu ruins, on Tuesday after a mudslide killed two people.

The key sights in this part of Peru are the city of Cuzco, the Inca sanctuary at Machu Picchu and towns, antiquities and markets of the Sacred Valley - arguably one of the most beautiful and scenic places in this wonderful country.

Surrounded on three sides by the gorges of the Urubamba River, and tucked between two massive mountain peaks - the Huayna Picchu and the Machu Picchu - the Inca city features about 200 stone structures and was probably inhabited by no more than 750 people.

Not only do you get to see the breathtaking Machu Picchu but at the same time raise much needed funds for Children Today.

91sec, with Machu Picchu sticking gamely to get back up for second, three-quarters of a length in front of Slip The Lark, who held the run of Mid West Blue for the other final slot.

The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated Shrek films visited the Incan city of Machu Picchu wearing an olive green bag emblazoned with a red star and the words "Serve the People", perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong's most famous slogan.

A Machu Picchu, known as 'the lost city of the Incas' is often voted one of the world's 'must-visit' destinations.

The walk concluded at the mysterious mountain-top Inca ruined city of Machu Picchu - an incredible sight, says Shad.

Peru is preparing a lawsuit against Yale University to retrieve artifacts taken nearly a century ago from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, says a Peruvian government official.

The Inca city of Machu Picchu in Peru was voted the 21st century's top wonder by readers of travel magazine Wanderlust.

Watching the first light of dawn break over the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu, I caught a brief glimpse of what I had heard so much about since arriving in Peru.

From a cliff high in the Peruvian Andes, I stared down at the ruins of Machu Picchu, the mysterious lost city of the Incas.