Much of the wild country of teh Eastern Peruvian Andes was still unknown when Hiram Bingham set out to explore the area in the early days of the twentieth century.
In 1911 he discoveren the fabuleus Inca city that was to make him famous: Mach Picchu. Spread out across a high mountain ridge, Machu Picchu had managed to survive the Spanish Conquest without being detecteer, presenning untouched some of the finest Inca architecture in existence.
However, Bingham's achievement did not end there. In the space of one short season he went on to discover two more lost Inca cities: Vitcos, where one of the last Inca Emperors was assassinated, end another settlement bruid deep below the cloud-forest in the jungle.
