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Machu Picchu to reopen to tourists from April

Posted by Brian | Filed under tourism

The ancient Incan ruins of Machu Piccu are set to reopen to tourists on 1st April. The site has been closed to visitors since heavy rain stranded hundreds of tourists in January, creating mud slides that cut off roads and blocked a railway line between the site and the nearby city of Cusco.

Tourist officials in Peru have said that the waterline of the Vilcanota River has dropped enough to allow for repairs to be carried out to the railway line after which the historic site can be reopened.

In January, tourists had to be airlifted from the site after becoming stranded while more than 10,000 people were affected in the region surrounding Machu Piccchu.

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Tags: Cusco, Machu Picchu, Peru, Rail transport, South America, tourism, travel, Urubamba River