Name: Machu Picchu, Peru | The Lost City of the Inca
Uploaded: 2025-08-12T18:38:26.000Z
Duration: 12 min 1 s
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Welcome back to Bad Brothers in VR, I'm Marko, and this is a 360 tour of Machu Picchu, the lost city of England, built in the 15th century and forgotten for 500 years, until Intel was discovered by me.

Hiram Bingham, American adventurer, historian, and world famous explorer.

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Alright, well after many hoops being jumped through, we have made it up to Machu Picchu, got the permit, everything's supposedly good to go.

I'm getting the character as Hiram Bingham.

Hiram Bingham was the explorer, American explorer and historian who found this place 100 plus years ago, and it must have been really challenging for him when he discovered this place 100 years ago.

But it's equally challenging for us 100 years later to film in it, but we're doing our best, and we're excited to bring Machu Picchu to you all in 360 degrees, and do our best to kind of find places where there's not a million plus people.

Supposedly they have 8,000 visitors a day, which is pretty easy to see because just over there, beyond all the mist, is a lot of people.

We were in line at 4 in the morning, and there was already a giant line to get up here.

But if you are interested in seeing Machu Picchu for yourself, we are going to be doing a before-you-go guide where we share all of our tips and point some things out so you guys don't have to make the mistakes that we did.

So for all of you wondering how we were making these VR videos, we were using the GoPro Odyssey.

It's a collaboration between GoPro and Google that basically has a 16 GoPro camera that stitches together into a single clip to make a virtual reality film.

So it's the best camera on the market at the moment, and it's going to give us a really immersive experience.

The reason we chose Machu Picchu as a VR site is because, A, a lot of people are interested in it, and B, VR has the ability to transport you to places and make you feel like you're there.

You have a lot of things that are at a good distance.

So make sure you see the film once it goes live.

So the first shot we're doing is at these terraces right here.

This is kind of an uncrowded spot, but it does kind of show the genius of Inca engineering, which was to make these terraces that function not just as a retaining wall to basically stop this place from sliding away, but also as a drainage system because it rains a ton here and allows the water to seep down right back into the earth rather than creating rivers that would wash away everything below it.

Apparently it could feed up to a thousand people who lived here at one point.

So this beautiful building back here is the Guard Hut.

We don't know if guards lived there, but it's a good name for it.

So we all know you guys want that awesome Instagram picture.

This is called the Guardian's Hut, Caretaker's Hut, and it's got a view of all the terraces and the city below.

That is when it's not covered in mist and mysterious and tough.

Well, it's always crowded with tons of people, but sometimes it's not covered in mist.

We were just filming the first take at the Caretaker's Hut, which is the hardest place to get without people.

And right when we've nailed the perfect take, this guy comes up and he's just like, chicos, chicos, chicos, asking to see our film permit.

Of course we had one, but the shot was ruined.

So the day is progressing, and we're making our way through the city.

We're at what used to be the old quarry where they got the stones to build the city.

The stones were most likely taken from this quarry where they were cutting slabs, hauled into place, and then chipped away until they fit together just right.

We've done about half of the takes that we need to take, and we're really just kind of working around the rain and the crowds.

There's tons of people here in the morning.

So we're kind of just waiting for the crowds to pass, waiting for the clouds to pass.

And while it's raining, we're kind of in this cool hut.

There's only a few of them that have been reconstructed like this because UNESCO requires that they maintain the area as it was.

So therefore, there's only a few spots like this.

I think we've probably walked around five or six miles so far because you can only really do a circuit.

As we've shot around the people and the crowds and the rain, we've had to do two circuits so far.

But it's a really nice place to be, you know, and I feel lucky to be here, especially being back in this place that I discovered in 1911, 106 years later.

We're now in what's known as the Casa del Inca.

This is basically the royal residence of the emperor for when he came to Machu Picchu.

About half of Machu Picchu is agricultural, where you see all the terraces.

If you can see here, the stonework here is incredible.

A lot of these slabs are up to three tons in weight and are perfectly fitted together.

This room is cool because there's actually a bathroom right there, and you can see where the bed would have been when the emperor would have stayed here.

Behind us is the hitching post of the sun.

Essentially, it's a sundial, except it measures the year instead of the day.

Really puts into perspective just how in tune with the elements and the sky the Inca were.

What's most impressive about it is it's the only one that exists in Peru.

The Spanish destroyed all of them in a way to wipe out the Inca religion and replace it with Catholicism.

The fact that this exists is extremely rare and very special.

Out behind us is the central plaza of Machu Picchu.

It's really cool because this is a very sacred temple.

Over there is kind of the residential area.

Usually, they have llamas roaming around here, and one of my favorite things about Machu Picchu is that they don't actually employ landscapers.

They just employ llamascapers, and the llamas cruise around and nibble on the grass and keep everything looking clean.

So a lot of people wake up super early to get here, but as you can see, it's about 2.30 right now, and the crowds have emptied out.

The afternoon is easier to pull off because you don't have to wake up early, and there's no one here.

So why wake up when you could just have it all to yourself in the afternoon?

This is where you find the Temple of the Three Windows, as well as the Hitching Post of the Sun and the Templo Mayor, the main temple.

The Temple of Three Windows is named because these three windows frame the mountains behind them, and according to Incan myth, those mountains are where the children of the gods came down to earth.

Behind me, you can see one of the areas where the foundation was not that great, and the rocks have actually slid off of balance.

But that's really one of the only places in the entire complex where that's happened, which goes to show how well-made these buildings were.