Stairs at Machu Picchu

Visiting Machu Picchu means climbing lots of stairs---up and down and up and down. There's really no way to avoid it. It's fun to notice all the different kinds of steps the Incas made.
These steps were made with many stones laid together.

Large flat stones make this stairway.
Notice Rio Urubamba at the bottom.

This stairway is made by using the stones as the edge of the stair, with the "tread" just dirt and grass.


This set of steps let up Huyana Picchu. They were basically large blocks of stone.