BY TTT NEWS NETWORK
KOLKATA, 17 FEBRUARY 2023:
The culture ministry of Peru has announced that from 15 February, the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Machu Picchu , an Inca era stone citadel nestled in the south eastern forests has reopened after being closed for about a month.
The Peru government was forced to close Machu Picchu after anti-government protests on 22 nd January this year. As a result about 400 international tourists who were stranded in Machu Picchu were airlifted to Cusco City by helicopter services.
On the first day after the world heritage site was reopened on Wednesday about 45 international tourists and 38 domestic tourists visited Machu Picchu.
Some of the international tourists who have visited Machu Picchu included those whose VISAs have been cancelled in January.
Talking to The Travel and Tourism Times, Anil Punjabi, Chairman ( East) of Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) has said that it is great news as the trekkers love to travel to Peru for Machu Picchu.
“ Though the tourists from eastern part of India going to Machu Picchu are quite low due to connectivity and high cost of travel,”he added.
The protestors have blocked and damaged the tracks during the protests, said Peru rail which operates tourist trains to Machu Picchu.
ABOUT-
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of the Southern part of Peru on a 7,970 feet mountain ridge. Often referred to as the “Lost City of the Incas”, it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.
It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province and also above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometers northwest of Cusco city . The Urubamba River flows past it, cutting through the Cordillera and creating a canyon with a tropical mountain climate.
TOURISM –
Machu Picchu is both a cultural and natural UNESCO World Heritage Site. Since its rediscovery in 1911, huge numbers of tourists have been visiting the site every year, with numbers exceeding 1.4 million in 2017.
As Peru’s most visited tourist attraction, and a major revenue generator, it is continually exposed to economic and commercial forces. In the late 1990s, the Government of Peru granted concessions to allow the construction of a cable car and a luxury hotel, including a tourist complex with boutiques and restaurants and a bridge to the site.
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