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  • I find it ironic that while the Inca were labeled as "savages" by the spanish who ruthlessly raped and murdered thousands without any remorse.

  • vengan a machu picchu patrimonio de la humanidad

  • I definitely have to visit Machu Picchu before I die. I don't know when and I don't now how but I will get there someday. It's going to be surreal and so awesome!

  • @yeahdude7 Same here. Someday I'm going to visit Machu Picchu!

  • machu Picchu is crap we have castles in wales 400 years older and more impressive

  • @cymrutroll ok fist of all, machu picchu was abandoned. and second the best places were destroyed. Spaniards said they were impressed by the clean roads and clean structures of Tenochtitlan. They would send people everyday to clean the roads and the structures completely. The island was mostly man made.

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  • im studying this in my class

  • hello i need help on my case study of machu pichu i have to find out about how is it an extreme tourist eviroment and what it is all i know that it is an small village on a moutain !!! help me pls!! inbox me if u know the answer!

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  • Bingaham was just a colonial adventurer who did not approach locals as equals, but as barbarians. Returning to the US (as just another conqurer) from a faraway land... This kind of "exploaration" was popular amongst "scientists" from the colonial powers up until the IWW at least...

  • Locals never lost track of Machu Picchu, it´s obvious. Even kids would have run up and down from the Urubamba river and up and down again. Machu Picchu never got lost by any means. Why do you think the colonial power, Spain, didn´t find it (if they didn´t)? The answer is obvious: locals kept their mouths shut...

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  • aliens built Machu Picchu fort i would let you all knw

  • God damn you Spain! God damn you all!

  • why didnt the united states have any big ancient civilizations

  • Once again Michael Palin has captured another location perfectly with all the sights and sounds of Machu Picchu. Your viewers have the chance to be there. We're running a competition to win a trip for two to Peru, where you'll travel, dine and sleep in style. Google 'A Journey Like No Other' and visit our sign-up page or click through to our channel for the link. Good luck!

  • With God's help, will be there soon!... finally my life time dream will come true!

  • @MrJosh4thewin lol

    somehow i thought of the end of mel gibson's apocolypto with that comment haa anyway's i'm definitely visiting machu picchu sometime

  • the spaniards were assholes

  • Wow..wish they got a better guide! This guy didn't know anything about the place. There are so many astounding facts about this place that warrant even a slight mention, ah well, pretty pictures though.

  • Super, beautiful, magical place. I want to go there one day.

  • My Theory:

    Incas were too good at life.

    God was all NO YOU DONT

    God erased Incas.

    COMPLETELY PLAUSIBLE. xD;

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  • wow incas coudnt level a mountain its aliens

  • creo que machu pichu es una cagada debido a la escases de poblcion autoctona porque los perunos son desendientes de los africanos con los indigenas de otras regiones asi que les digo que son unos pobresitos

  • I'm trying to save up the money to go here. Need around £1500 I reckon.

  • Thumbs up if you're here because of The Daily Show...

  • its just like hagdan hagdan palayan in philipins

  • la versas es una mierda/// que tenia ser de los verdaderos ./ los ingles porque lo indios perusanos son unos podridos que son una cagada!###############

  • To: Magyaraucano: Please revise peruvian history, I do not defend Hiram Bingam, but without his help and "money" nobody would know Machuppichu today. I quote you "financed by USA and the geographic soc. they looted cultural patrimony". I disagree, if you did read your books in school, what he took to Yale is nothing compared to what Spaniards took in gold, silver, lives and more. What happened to the gold?.. they MELTED it.

  • @scooterNJ I doubt he was the only person on earth with "money" if a Peruvian had exposed it, not discovered because like someone else said in the comments the natives knew of its existance all along, to the world they would of left it intact. The whole thing with the Spaniards is completely different, theres no way you can compare the two. Also I'm pretty sure Yale returned everything, don't quote me on that though.

  • THE STROKES

  • is similar apache and inkas people

  • @ukperulimenos No, Incas like the Mayas were organized big cultures... Apaches were more like collectors and hunters. Incas had a king (the Inca) who was the supremed ruler. They conquered other towns earning a great territory that extended from Ecuador to Chile. They had an structured social class and made sculptures of gold dedicated to their deities

  • Where's my fucking corn???

  • Tengo el orgullo de ser peruana y soy felíz.

    

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  • ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh un Python en Sudamerica, ORGULLO REGIONAL!!!

  • siempre viendo el lado negativo de las cosas pero la verdad que si los peruanos la hubioeramos saqueado y venddido las piezas como lo siguen haciendo en la costa norte hay mucho casos en el mundo de reclamos tanto de egipto y grecia y los museos del mundo estan devolviendo muchas piezas poco a poco ya que en esos paises exite mas estabilidad si no fuera por esos museos las guerras y los saquedores ya las hubieran desapericido cuantos sipan an encotrado y los funden si ono

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  • maybe it was a prayer center long time ago.

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  • thank you bbc for beeing that openminded to share that production on that site.

  • La Universidad de Yale, donde Hiram Bingham fue catedratico, ha 'decidido' devolver todos los objetos que USA y la Sociedad Geografica saquearon cuando ENCONTRARON Machu Picchu. Los primeros en cometer crimenes en contra del PATRIMONIO CULTURAL DEL TAHUANTINSUYO (Imperio Incaico) fueron los espanioles. Desde entonces hemos sido usados como fuente de 'riquezas' para todos los gobiernos que el Peru ha tenido y por paises poderosos como USA, Francia, Alemania, El Reino Unido y ahora ultimo China!!!

  • ooops I was looing for the song. sorry

  • Been there, done that

  • its not inca you idiots. pseudoscientist who probably lives in UK, and been only couple of times there. Inca didn't built, they were and still are primitive, they only occupied and repaired those marvelous things. Tyr to put those large stones to height of 800 metres and put them side to side so that it would be less than 1mm.

  • @RRRuser The word Inca means King in Quechua. Do not know exactly how we native Peruvians were called during the Incas Empire. We are 'Chola/Cholo' and love to be called cholita/cholito. Regarding the large stones and how they were join together, well that is a 'secret' that only true native Peruvians -as my maternal grandmother- know. Thank you for your interest in Peruvian Culture! By the way, I was born in Cuzco & I have lived in UK for over 20 years.

  • hiram bingham did not discover machupicchu, a native peruvian told him where was machupicchu.Every native from there new that machupicchu existed they just did not have money to do all the things that bingham did

  • @mandolis We native Peruvians knew of the existence of Machu Picchu. It was not money that stopped us clearing the place from wild plants, etc. We did not want to disturb the 'past' and the historical meaning of the 'place'. We respect our ancestors, their lives, their experiences and their believes our believes!

  • @mandolis true true :|

  • @mandolis He made public the existence of the Quechua citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local Indigenous farmers. as said by wikipedia. :) He isn't known as discovering it, but revealing it to the world.

  • Do not visit peru pls :D till the goverment changes the laws (support to made a safe country) bcoz u could die n the murderer could get only 5 years or less =/ ppl there kills for even 5 bucks X_X and im not kiddin

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  • @2011new U CAN FUCK OFF PUSY GUY

  • @Anthortiz if i see u f2f u would be my pussy bastard , dont insult or wanna be hunted? if u wanna type somethin *should b for help or just dont do it*

  • @2011new are u fuking stupid??? how can you say something like that.

  • @AlBeRtSiNhO its the truth

  • @2011new

    well, judging by the fact that you are an illiterate fucking retard ("people KILL"..not "people KILLS" like you wrote.."support TO MADE a safe" wtf is that?), we'll just go ahead and completely dismiss your stupid and moronic comment.

    Just where in the fuck are you from anyhow? Bolivia? Chile?

    Peru is a beautiful and safe country!

  • @2011new That's a pretty unfair comment. Have you actually been there? Either way I don't care. I'm going January 2012, Can't wait.

  • @2011new look you stupid ass .. im peruvian and im fucking proud of that !!! are you trying to ruin the reputation of my country you jackass!!! a lot of rich people that i know went to peru and they were delighted ... they want to go again ... in every country including USA people would kill for 5 bucks .. son dont be stupid !!!

  • @mandolis Americans want to take credit for everything.

  • @mandolis Yes, Hiram Bingham totally did not discover Machu Picchu. It was a native who showed Bingham where it was. Agreed.

  • awesome

  • GRINGOS ASQUEROSOS que mierda se creen,

  • Incredible magical place.

  • Do you get to Machu Picchu from the bottom of the mountain or from the top?????

  • I like that he said Bingham "stumbled" upon it, and not "discovered" as many have mistakenly stated in the past.

  • ancient history assignment . . . .DONE!

  • 1911 - 2011, cien años del descubrimiento al resto del mundo de Machu Picchu.

  • Would it be possible to live at machu picchu?

  • one of my life ambitions is to visit Machu Picchu

  • We know why it was abandoned so suddenly! The Spanish didn't need to get there. They'd destroyed the civilization of which it was an integral part. Every South American civilization was utterly destroyed 1530 and the people either enslaved or killed outright. Has the RCC done its job in hiding or explaining away what it was witness to and author of?

  • bitch

  • i live here and its awful, please dont even think about coming here

  • @Weezer4Life7 whats so awful?

  • meow

  • Viva Inca Kola!!!!!!!

  • ejem...buen video.. por cierto queria decir una cosa, machu picchu es territorio peruano, y al que diga lo contraria que se atreva a decirmelo a la cara.

  • en una de sus fotos poseras de hiram bhingam que se tomo en machupichu, años despues se percata que aparece el nombre de una persona escrito en uno de los muros !!

    alguien tiene algun antecedente de esta informacion? si es real ?

  • WELCOME TO PERU LAND OF THE INKAS!

  • Luismail1...Prestame a tu hermana....

  • Machu Picchu looks great on the video of Gloria Estefan - Wrapped

  • LEAVENOWECEMAGICALACE

    Machu PicchuPSP2THEM 2:00

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  • A magical place, one of my favorite destinations.

  • machupiccho es rerritorio ecuatoriano esta prestado asta el 2020

  • oh yeah..viva el peru

  • jajj quiero las piesas  robadas

  • Absolutely incredible

  • seems that there are so many videos here on youtube not worth watching or much less posting a comment about.....this is neither of the two. Thank you so much for posting. I believe that the rest of the world truly needs to take note of how the people of Peru live and have lived for many years.

  • nio hay duda q machupicchu y el cuzco son de otras esferas es otro cantar una gran ciudadela muy admirable por todos eh

  • viva el peru

  • welcome to peru

  • Y ahora Yale nos devolvera las piezas :D

  • Did you know that July 2011 is the 100 year anniversary for the scientific discovery of Machu Picchu?

  • Those early Spanish explorers/conquerers and their catholic superstitions have lost us a lot of historical artifacts.

  • si verdad mque ya devuelvan lo que nos pertenecen,pucha que meto bomba como bin laden

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  • it was the high ground and the great stronghold if the Spanish tried to enter they would have one way to realy go and thats up. looking at the military aspect of the mountian location is obvious as well. When you build a castle build on the High Ground and make a defence and then hold.

  • Horrah for Michael Palin (long live Monty Python!!!!) and Hurrah for Melchor Arteaga who SHOWED Hiram Bingham Mach Picchu !!!!!

  • Wish I could go there one day :'(

  • Sin ánimo de sembrar odiosidades, creo injusto que se diga que Hiram Bingham descubrio Machu Picchu. El solo llego a la ciudad que ya se sabia que existía y llegó financiado por USA y la sociedad geografica a SAQUEAR el patrimonio cultural que nos pertenece a todos los Sudamericanos. Los objetos saqueados por el Quakero Hiram Bhingam se exhiben en todos los museos de USA y nunca se devolvieron como lo decian los protocolos de acuerdo.

    NO se le debe rendir culto a un saqueador sin ideales.

  • @Magyaraucano Estoy de acuerdo con Ud.

  • @Magyaraucano shit dude we arent worshiping him they just said he found it. and its not the USA's fault they are too poor to restore thier own ancient cities. only what like 15% has been found? they will never get to excavating and when they do all the stone will be dirt.

  • @Magyaraucano Tienes razón, ese gringo vino al Perú a saquear Machu Picchu. Se hizo rico y la U. de Yale se quedó con todo lo encontrado, menos el oro por supuesto, eso se lo quedó el gran "descubridor".

  • @Magyaraucano Totalmente de acuerdo contigo.

  • @Magyaraucano TIENES TODA LA RAZON

  • @Magyaraucano You should find a way to write this in English so that every American citizen would be able to read and understand this and perhaps make some pressure over their government to return you guys what has been stolen from you 100 years ago.

  • @fiofodiveia

    No wanting to create hate, but I believe it unjust to say that Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu. He arrived to a city that was known to exist and was financed by the USA and the National Geographic Society to pillage the cultural heritage of all South American. The stolen items by the Quaker Hiram Bingham are exhibited in all the museams of the USA and were never returned as required by their agreement.

    We should NOT honor a theif without ideals.

  • Amazing scenery!

  • I really love to visit Machu Picchu.

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  • OMG...! Machu Picchu is fantastic...!

  • Michael Palin in Machu Picchu BBC!

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    Michael Palin in Machu Picchu BBC

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    Michael Palin in Machu Picchu BBC

  • @monalisavictoria Arriba Perú :D

  • Michael Palin in Machu Picchu BBC

  • no se por que me revienta que la gente diga en esta propaganda hay blancos o en la otra hay mestizos, mira yo soy trigueño no me hago problemas si salen blancos, negros peruanos de descendencia asiatica, creo que algunos tienen complejo de inferioridad. somos un pais multiracial si salen blancos es por que hay blancos, si salen morenos es por que hay gente morena,en mi caso yo soy de descendencia asiatica y en mi caso deberia molestarme que no salgan gente asiatica ya que en el Peru somos muchos

  • so this was inka civilization?

  • NOOB he took the train!! Real men do they trail!! no jk, love Michael Palin. Love the Inca.

  • POR FAVOR todo peruano sabe que en los comerciales salen gringos (whites) ta que todos sabemos eso, pero eso es muuuuuuuuy injusto, por favor vean noticieros de peru, de mexico, la mayoria de gente que sale es chola/indigena COMO PUEDEN NEGAR ESE RACISMO, para los q no entienden:: imaginen que en japon en el 90% de los comerciales salgan puros gringos jajajajaja seria como peru pe

  • @bengael Oye pe´, debes ser bien feo pe` para estar como disco rayado pe en todos los videos escribiendo lo mismo pe`.

  • @bengael si hay un poco de racismo en ese sentido, pero tambien hay otros factores que influyen en q sea asi.. x ejemploo muchos comerciales estan dirigidos hacia un sector especifico de la sociedad, generalmente la d mas plata xq es la q consume lo q se quiere mostrar... y en los comerciales suele salir el prototipo de persona para quien estan dirigidos

  • 99% in TV spots IN PERU shows white people.

    that is racism.

    When a mark need popular aceptation shows INDIGENAN PEOPLE

    In political spots, shows INDIGENAN PEOPLE

    hahahaha indigenan are mayority

    I INVITE YOU TO SEE PERUVIAN TV

  • i wanna be there.shit! need to pay bills.

  • We agree...what does 'discovery' mean anyway ?

  • Is it right that Machu Picchu is way older than Inkas. May be Lemurians build it to avoid Flud. 

  • We should ask all the non south american citizens a visa to come to Peru.

  • CIA FACTBOOK 2009:

    Perú Ethnic groups: * Amerindian (incas)- 45% * Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) - 37% * White - 15% * Black, Japanese, Chinese, and other - 3%

    pal qe dice q todos somos mestizos, lo gracioso es que la minoria (los blancos) son los q salen en el 99% de la publicidad

    The white people appears in the TV spot in Perú at 99%

    un claro racismo tonto

  • @bengael no seas imbecial incas 45%?..no todos los indigenas de peru son incas. el racista eres tu .yo soy peruano.

  • @bengael define white? pure whites are a minority in advertizing...i see only mestizos in advertizing- mestizos do have caucasoid traits (some) thats why you see them as whites eventhough they are not whites so STFU. come on and be straight here indians arent the cutest people around right? so why would I as a brand holder would want them in an advertizing? to lose money?

  • @mmgoicochea disculpa estas en los estados unidos y de q pais eres solo curiosidad porq tenemos el mismo apellido soy elvis goicochea y vivo en el estado de alabama a ver si nos comunicamos por esta saludos

  • los nefillim construyeron esto no fueron los incas

  • @dunn4040 Viva Perú y Maxu Pixu ^ ^

  • Nunca decubierta por los españoles. se mantuvo como uno de los secretos del mundo hasta el siglo XX

  • Hermoso Perú...1

  • Does any one know how to spell the term he used to describe the ceremonial stone that was used to measure the position of the Sun? It seems like i read that it vibrates!

  • @PerforminGorman - IntiHuatana - The ceremonial stone.

  • @PerforminGorman intihuatana

  • Even in 2010 Machu Picchu is indeed a special place in the world that raises more questions than it provides answers...

  • maybe we'd know what happen if the spanish didn't go on a genocidal rampage across south america

  • :O Hermoso :D

  • I know why it was deserted. It must be that the city was reliant on food imported from other parts of the empire. When the empire fell the city could no longer support itself and was abandoned. And that as they say is that.

  • @BVargas78 I agree, once the people who worked there/lived food was gone, they had to leave

  • heaven on earth simply classyyyyyyyyyy

  • OMG ADVERTISEMENTS!!!

  • machu-picchu is fuckin amazing :D Arriba Perú

  • ¡Machu Picchu pe...! xD

  • Am I the only person that notices that Michael Pallin's tour guide speaks with a bizarre accent that switches from English to American and then back again in a matter of seconds? Listen to him closely. The guy is going through some sort of identity crisis. I hate it when people pretend to be someone that aren't. Fucking losers.

  • @BTC141 i was noticing that the whole time

  • @supahswag great minds my friend. I wonder what Michael Palin was thinking about this man with the strange accent.

  • I'll be here next month. Can't wait!

  • @dunn4040 haha fuck you :P im so jealous of you :(

  • thank you to all the Spanish for coming to our land and destroying everything they found just in the search for gold. Also thank you for not contributing to our culture and not making sure that our country becomes a developed country like at one time was.

  • @allandario i think a detect a hint of sarcasm? ;)

  • oh no puedo creerlo aunque sea una de los monty python visito mi pais que alegria

  • machu oicchu :were not a great civilization because they did not respect the rights and they also kill women and servants next to the mummy of King

    .......... Adapted from the story of (the golden mask )in Egypt for students of secondary general

  • hola

  • There is a lot more to Peru than Machu Picchu :-) Its great to visit it, and it is so impressive to see the skill that was used in carving the stone and even getting all that stone to the top... but I saw people that had travelled half way across the world just to go to Machu Picchu and never spent any time finding out about Peru which is an amazing vibrant country. Try visiting Arequipa too! Visit Chavin de Huanta birthplace of Andean civilisation or north to Chan Chan or the Señor de Sipán