Japanese tourist place Machu Picchu gets reopened for this person
Japanese tourist place Machu Picchu gets reopened for this person
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Tourist destinations are getting opened for travel freaks. Peru's best-known tourist place Machu Picchu has reopened after months of coronavirus closure, but for just a single visitor who is a Japanese man, who got stuck in the country by the pandemic. "The first person on Earth who went to Machu Picchu since the lockdown is meeeeeee," Jesse Katayama posted on his Instagram account alongside pictures of himself at the abandoned site. "This is truly amazing! Thank you," he added in a video posted on the Facebook pages of the local tourism authority in Cusco, where the famous site is located.

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Katayama spoke against the background of the grand mountaintop dotted with ancient ruins that once drew thousands of tourists a day but has been closed since March because of the coronavirus. Talk about the site, Machu Picchu is the most surviving legacy of the Inca imperialism that ruled a large swathe of western South America for 100 years before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. The ruins of the Inca settlement were rediscovered in 1911 by the American explorer Hiram Bingham, and in 1983, UNESCO declared Machu Picchu a World Heritage Site.

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It was formerly programmed to resume to visitors in July, but that has now been pushed back to November. Just 675 tourists a day will be allowed in, 30 percent of the number allowed before the pandemic, with visitors expected to maintain social distancing. Since it first opened to tourists in 1948, it has been closed just once before, for two months in 2010 when a flood destroyed the railway tracks connecting it to Cusco.

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