{"id":2694,"date":"2013-08-21T18:29:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2015-06-16T14:14:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T18:14:28","slug":"educational-travel-photo-week-machu-picchu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/educational-travel-photo-week-machu-picchu","title":{"rendered":"Educational Travel Photo of the Week: Machu Picchu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Peru: Machu Picchu Educational Tour\" href=\"..\/..\/educational-tours\/peru-machu-picchu.aspx?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=photo+of+the+week+\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2697\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2697\" title=\"lima, cusco, machu picchu 356 (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lima-cusco-machu-picchu-356-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lima-cusco-machu-picchu-356-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lima-cusco-machu-picchu-356-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lima-cusco-machu-picchu-356-1-528x396.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Explore the remnants of Incan civilization at <a title=\"Machu Picchu educational tour\" href=\"..\/..\/educational-tours\/peru-machu-picchu.aspx?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=photo+of+the+week+\" target=\"_blank\">Machu Picchu<\/a>. Believed to have been built as an estate for Emperor Pachacuti around 1450, Machu Picchu was abandoned during the Spanish Conquest. Though known locally, the &#8220;Lost City of the Incas&#8221; was virtually unknown to the outside world until 1911, when American historian Hiram Bingham visited the area and subsequently made its existence public. Since then, Machu Picchu has become both an international tourist attraction and a U<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">NESCO heritage site.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Machu Picchu educational tour\" href=\"..\/..\/educational-tours\/peru-machu-picchu.aspx?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=photo+of+the+week+\" target=\"_blank\">Visit Machu Picchu with Explorica\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore the remnants of Incan civilization at Machu Picchu. Believed to have been built as an estate for Emperor Pachacuti around 1450, Machu Picchu was abandoned during the Spanish Conquest. Though known locally, the &#8220;Lost City of the Incas&#8221; was virtually unknown to the outside world until 1911, when American historian Hiram Bingham visited the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/educational-travel-photo-week-machu-picchu\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explorica-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5793,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/5793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}