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Hiram Bingham: To Machu Picchu, 1911

In July 1911 a Yale lecturer went looking for the last capital of the Incas and found Machu Picchu instead, guided by a Peruvian innkeeper and a farmer's young son. The route follows the Yale Peruvian Expedition from Cusco down the Urubamba to the ruins, then on to Vitcos and Espíritu Pampa, where the real answer sat unrecognised. The city had already been visited locally, and Bingham's conclusion about it proved mistaken.