Machu Picchu Sunrise

Canon EOS 20D, 18.0-55.0mm, ISO 400, f9, 1/200 s, May 31, 2006

Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a 2,430-meter (7,970 ft) mountain ridge. Most archeologists believe that Machu Picchu was constructed as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438–1472)