Machu Picchu is open again — as if modern man could ever really close this abandoned city.
The ancient Inca city resting at 8,500 feet in the Andes continues to survive, but at least now tourists can make their way up to it.
According to the AFP, about 1,000 tourists joined 
the celebration (and Susan Sarandon, who was in Peru protesting for the rights of left handed orphans) of Machu Picchu opening its gates again.
In January, record rainfall had washed away parts of the rail road tracks that helped bring tourists to the mysterious city that evaded the Spanish conquistadors but not their small pox.
Through the years, Machu Picchu remains an enigma. No one has fully explained how the city was built or exactly why it was located where it was. The Incas — a civilization ahead of its time — is often criticized for not having ever developed the wheel, but if they were around today, they might say the wheel is overrated in the mountains and they never had to close the city for inferior train track building.
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