A New Section of The Inca Road to Machu Picchu Found

I know there are many more Inca roads undiscovered in the jungle around Cuzco, mostly leading to Machu Picchu. Who knows what could be found by the other side of the road, maybe Paititi.



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A new Inca Trail has been discovered. This leads to the area Wayraqtambo, Tambo of Winds, located in the back of Machu Picchu.

One has a length of about a mile long; has between 1.20 and 1.40 meters wide, these measures vary according to the topography .

Still to be cleaned of the brush and trees that cover it. Currently, they can only see retaining walls up to three meters high. It is noteworthy that one of the most impressive finds is a tunnel of nearly 5 meters long, which is located at 2,700 masl

The head of the Archaeological Park of Machu Picchu, Fernando Astete, said "It is one of the finest examples of Inca engineering . It has been verified that the tunnel was built after the main road collapsed. So our ancestors fractured rock and began the work. " The tunnel is still operating , despite 500 years .

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Good find OP.

OP, I've noticed a lot of pics lately (on ats) are shaded pink! I've just posted the source pic and its not pink, may I ask why the pic you posted is?

a reply to: VoidHawk
They both look fine to me....

And yeah, great find OP!

a reply to: VoidHawk

Haha...., I must be sorta color blind. Didn't notice it.

originally posted by: bbracken677
a reply to: VoidHawk
They both look fine to me....

And yeah, great find OP!

This is what I'm seeing.

a reply to: VoidHawk

Think it is on your side of things void, it looked normal to me as well

a reply to: Sremmos80

Apologies to OP.
I downloaded the pic to my desktop and it looks fine, it seems my browser is having a problem with .png files.

I love this kind of stuff! Both pics look fine to me as well.

sounds like bad monitor settings .and yes good things happen off the beaten path

originally posted by: ichigokunbaka
sounds like bad monitor settings .and yes good things happen off the beaten path

Wherever I am hiking, I never like to follow the path. You will never discover anything there. You will just get to see what everyone else has already seen.

a reply to: Trueman
Thanks for the info, Trueman!
Don't have time, tonight...but will look at this, tomorrow.

a reply to: VoidHawk

Poke around for settings referencing transparency when viewing .PNG's. Pink is a common color used to depict a transparent layer by a lot of photo editing software.

originally posted by: ichigokunbaka
sounds like bad monitor settings .and yes good things happen off the beaten path

Hi ichigokunbaka.
Monitor is not affected by picture type, it just displays whats presented to it via the graphics card

originally posted by: parad0x122
a reply to: VoidHawk

Poke around for settings referencing transparency when viewing .PNG's. Pink is a common color used to depict a transparent layer by a lot of photo editing software.

Hi parad0x122.
You're correct about pink being used for transparencies, thanks for reminding me

ETA: Tracked it down to graphics card driver update. Fine with old drivers but pink with the new drivers.
Only happens while viewing in the browser though (FF). Will use the old drivers and wait for update.

a reply to: VoidHawk

Good stuff! That's pretty interesting it only effected FF, good to know

originally posted by: parad0x122
a reply to: VoidHawk

Good stuff! That's pretty interesting it only effected FF, good to know

Hi parad0x122.
Just thought you might be interested.

I was led astray by the drivers

Dont want to be of topic in this thread so I'll keep it short.

With firefox open. Type into the address bar about:config
This opens a window FULL of settings.
gfx.color_management.mode = 2 is wrong, it should = 0
It controls how ff manages colors.
Problem solved

Again, apologies to op

a reply to: VoidHawk

Ah yes, the old about:config. It's amazing how one wrong setting in there can throw your system all out of whack, lol!

Apologies to the OP as well, de-rail will now be avoided :-P