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Tourism: trekking to Machu Picchu

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Tourism: trekking to Machu Picchu

Since the early 2000s Latin America has become a popular tourist destination for New Zealanders wanting to experience somewhere more exotic than Europe or Australia. Here a group of trekkers stand above Machu Picchu – an ancient Inca city in Peru.

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Warwick E. Murray, Latin America and New Zealand – Cultural and future relations, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/36045/tourism-trekking-to-machu-picchu (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Warwick E. Murray, published 18 May 2012.