Ben van Kerkwyk
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It's a very... This is the thing... Here we go.
So if you zoom in on that...
So this is up the hill, and these are cut marks.
It's like a grid pattern that's been cut into the stone.
I don't know how with what, but you actually can't see this from the ground.
And we were super lucky in that there was a huge festival going on in the town, and all the guards were at the festival.
So they'd never let you get up here otherwise.
We climbed up this halfway up this mountain to get a picture of those cut lines, which is, again, not attributable to the โ
very basic tools that the Inca had, right, barely in the Bronze Age.
Yeah, so this is that drone footage.
Also, because the guards weren't there, they would have gone nuts if they'd caught us droning.
I think you'd think so, but it's not the case.
In fact, they're getting worse, unfortunately, in parts of Peru just in terms of the ropes and the restricted areas you can't go to.
Machu Picchu, unfortunately, you can't get to the famous hitching post of the sun or the central megalithic area.