Machu Picchu gets a quick lift From: Americas | Date: March 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright Organization of American States, Sales and Promotion Division Mar/Apr 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

RIO DE JANEIRO has a cable-car system to ferry tourists up to Paso de Acucar and back. The Great Wall of China has one for the tourists, too, as does the ancient Israeli mountain fortress of Masada. So why not Machu Picchu, the best known archaeological site in South America?

Roberto Persivale Rivero, for one, sees no reason why Peru's leading tourist attraction shouldn't have a cable car. Last summer, his company, Peru Hotel S.A., won a twenty-five-year concession from the Fujimori government, to build a high-tech teleferico that will whisk tourists from the town of Aguascalientes up to the ...

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