Sugarloaf-shaped Huayna Picchu towers above the Lost City of Machu Picchu, Peru.
The view from the Guardian's Hut that the photographs have been promising you. It actually delivers — the ordered geometry of temples and plazas in the foreground, Huayna Picchu rising steeply behind, the Urubamba gorge far below. © David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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