Looking back up from the main site at the southern agricultural terraces with the House of the Guardian of the Funerary Rock on top and Machu Picchu Mountain behind.
The southern agricultural terraces, with the Guardian's Hut at the top — the classic vantage point that most photos are taken from. Machu Picchu Mountain rises behind it. © McKay Savage from London, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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