As many as 800 tourists left stranded at Machu Picchu after demonstrators block the only route out of the UNESCO Heritage Site:
As Many as 800 Tourists Left Stranded at Machu Picchu After Demonstrators Block the Only Route Out of the UNESCO Heritage SiteDecember 16, 2022
“Someone needs to negotiate and get in touch with the army and get us out,” Mark Goodwin, a British tourist, told the London“We have asked the government to help us and establish helicopter flights in order to evacuate the tourists,” Darwin Baca, mayor of the town, which is also known as Aguas Calientes, toldPeru has been experience political turmoil following the arrest of former President Pedro Castillo.
Protestors sabotaged the train route to Machu Picchu, where supplies at the foot of the mountains are currently dwindling.
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