Full-Day Trip to Machu Picchu by Train and Bus from Cusco, Peru

Machu Picchu in english means "Old Mountain" is contemporary name to an ancient Andean town built in the mid fifteenth century in the rocky promontory that links the mountains Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu in the eastern slopes of the central mountains south occurs Peru. Machu Picchu is located at 2490 m, altitude of the main square, where his original name was Picchu or Piccho finally called by the mountains surrounding Machu Picchu.According to documents from the mid-sixteenth century, Machu Picchu would have been one of the residences rest of Pachacutec.