Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

by Mark Adams

I’d always assumed that nothing worth discovering remained hidden on the face of the earth. The llamas changed my mind.

Johan Reinhard’s Machu Picchu: Exploring an Ancient Sacred Center. In it, Reinhard suggests that trying to understand places like Machu Picchu and Vitcos as individual, self-contained sites misses a larger point. These monuments were built in relation to the sun, the stars, the mountains—and to one another.