Machu Picchu, or "A place too far".

Machu Pichu is one of the most important, atractive and best-know archeological place in South America and the entire world. But is one of the most important tourist sites in Perú and the continent, too. This place was building in the XV century, and the scholars agree that this complex was designed like a ceremonial site. Nevertheless, in Machu Pichu there are building designed like administrative and military buildings, and a palace for the incaican empire's ruler class.

Hidden in the mountains for many centuries before the spanish colonization, and the destruction of the incaican empire,  just some shepherds and farmers knew the existent of this complex.  Only in the 20th century, an expedition led by the american scholar Hiram Bingham, and funded by National Geographic Society and Yale Univertsity, allowed to him to explore the complex deeply, and finally, showing this center to the entire world.

Given this facts, in my last summer vacations I decided to travel through Bolivia and Perú, included Machu Pichu. But now I think that it was a very ambitious project: I got sick in Boliva and I had to come back to Chile, just in the moment that I was made the big step to Peru, and Machu Picchu.

My history is like the history of the invasion of the allied soldiers of Holland, called "Operation Market-Garden" where the objetctive was to seize the bridge betwen Eindhoven and Arhem (in the low Rhin) an then, launch a quick invasión of Germany before 1944's Christmas. The allied take all the bridge but no the last one before the heart of Germany, in Arhem. 

Like the british scholar and writers said that this operation have the goal to take"a bridge too far", I think that my vacation had a "place too far". Maybe another chance in the future can appear for a travelling to Machu Pichu, but at this time I wil take it without doubts...and with a good health!!!