Machu Picchu Videos — Now online

Some reporter I am.  I had the hot story, the hot pictures, the hot videos and what did I do?  Waited a week to post them.  Duh.  I’ll never get a job with the AP with that kind of turn-around.  Oh well, I’ve learned to be better prepared, always hoping to get caught in a disaster that I will uniquely be able to report on.  I’ll take my card reader next time!

Better late than never but here are some links to YouTube with a few videos from our Machu Picchu experience:

This one shows the Bumbaya river from the patio off the dining room of the Inkaterra hotel where we stayed.  It was this way or worse the entire time we were there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0BYiD1eo9A

This one shows a helicopter taking off from the grass landing area about ¼ mile down a jungle path from the Inkaterra.  This is on the hotel property although it might not be owned by them.  We left in a helicopter similar to this.  This one held about 20 people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSV2gS7j8jw

This is the video I shot as we ran to get on the helicopter.  Sorry for the shakiness but we had guys with guns aimed at us telling us to hurry and the helicopter was big and had a lot of downdraft.  More to come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFSvtu88tyE

Hope you enjoyed these snapshots into the experience.  I have to upload the videos after midnight (when everyone else on the ship is asleep!) or it takes forever and usually bombs out before it finishes. Tomorrow, I’ll start posting pictures.  I’ll start from the present and continue to some of the historic pictures.

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