I tried way too hard to get a selfie with this llama, but he was too stubborn to help me look cool, unfortunately.
Come on, llama get a selfie!
Oh well, I tricked him into at least letting me capture this good pose!
The good people who work at Machu Picchu told me that if you make a crinkle noise, the llamas get curious and come to inspect it.
So, they were nice enough to give me a little bit of trash...
Haha, I never thought I'd say it was nice of someone to give me their trash.
Well, you know what they say...
...one man's trash is another man's treasure. Or, one man's trash is another man's llama attraction.
I did feel a LITTLE guilty for making the llama think I had something exciting in my hand when it was just trash 😕
I just wanted to hang out with him sooo badly, but he didn't want to hang with me. I don't know why.
I had showered that morning, so I don't think it was 'cause I smelled bad.
After trying a little too hard, I finally almost got a selfie:
Semi-selfie fail.
I'm not sure why a llama selfie was so important to me.
I probably should have been focusing more on, I don't know, the AMAZING world wonder right in front of me!!!
Machu Picchu is legitimately amazing. It deserves its spot on the world wonders list. When you're up there, looking down, it's almost impossible to imagine how someone could have built that thing.
And I have a pretty good imagination, so, that's saying something.
It was built for the Incan emporer in the 1400s, who must've been a SERIOUS introvert. Or a hermit. Because seriously... Macchu Picchu is basically out in the middle of nowhere.
The Incan emperor wasn't about that extrovert life, haha.
Can you imagine living up here?
After all the twists and turns to get to the top, my little friend here was feeling like crap:
The crazy thing is, they built it without any tools, or wheels or anything to help them carry the stones up the side of the steep mountains.
I think Incans are extra smart, because they created this world wonder and the design is insanely intelligent.
Because did you know that the majority of the impressive stuff about Machu Pichu is actually underground?
Yep. It rains a lot there... so the designed the rocks underground to double as a drainage system. And to get drinking water.
The only un-intelligent thing they did was eat too much corn. It kinda wreaked havoc on their teeth (or at least I THINK that's what the guide was saying when I overheard some of his talk).
Maybe they should have brushed their teeth with urine like the Romans did to prevent bad teeth.
But I mean, cut them some slack... it's not like they had a grocery store or anything.
I probably just would've gotten confused, and starved to death, so the Incans have me beat by a mile.
~~ This is my entry for the animal photography contest by @juliank ~~