Machu Picchu, Peru: Tourists arrested for allegedly defecating in sacred temple
08:29, Jan 15 2020
Six tourists have been arrested at Peru's Machu Picchu for allegedly defecating in a sacred temple.
Police found them in the Temple of the Sun, an area which is off-limits to visitors, Agence France-Press reported.
Cusco regional police chief Wilbert Leyva said there had been some damage to the temple. A stone had a "fracture", and there was a crack in the floor; faeces was also discovered.
"The six tourists are being detained and investigated by the public ministry for the alleged crime against cultural heritage," Leyva is quoted as saying.
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/118794176/machu-picchu-peru-tourists-arrested-for-allegedly-defecating-in-sacred-temple
Tourists seem to go berserk when they arrive there. Have read so many disgusting reports on tourists going completely ape-#### once they get to their destination, when they could have more easily made @$$&$ of themselves right where they were to start with, unless they happened to be upstanding members of the communities and couldn't afford to have anyone recognizing them.
A Brief and Baffling History of People Taking Off Their Chonies at Machu Picchu
Written by Yara Simón | 4 years ago
TCulture asked people to control their urge to take off their clothes. “There are places in the world that people can get naked, but not all places are (appropriate) for getting undressed,” Alfredo Mormontoy Atayupanqui told CNN.
But people continue to strip down – increased security and stern warnings on admission tickets be damned. 10 tourists got undressed at Machu Picchu in 2015, and there have already been two nekkid people running around the ruins this year.
A couple years ago, Paul Marshall – the man behind Naked at Monuments – said Machu Picchu was an incredibly easy place to get naked. He gave it a 1.5/5 difficulty rating. “The reason this has such a low difficulty rating is because far too many of my friends have been naked here,” he wrote.
While we can’t really answer why people are taking off all their clothes at Machu Picchu (¯_(ツ
_/¯) , we can give you a brief, NSFW timeline of people birthday suiting up:
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Two Austrian tourists are arrested and banned from visiting Machu Picchu again after they stripped off at the world heritage site
By BRYONY JEWELL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:46 EST, 26 August 2019 | UPDATED: 12:50 EST, 26 August 2019
Two Austrian tourists have been kicked out of Machu Picchu and banned after they were allegedly spotted stripping off and taking pictures of their bare bottoms.
Local media said the tourists were caught by security guards at the world wonder in the Andes Mountains, in the Cusco Region of southeastern Peru.
Guards at the Directorate of Culture then alerted the Tourist Police, who arrested the alleged offenders and transferred them to the nearest checkpoint.
Head of the archaeological park Jose Bastante said: 'We must understand that this is a sacred space, this is Machu Picchu, not Disneyland.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7395821/Two-Austrian-tourists-arrested-stripped-Machu-Picchu.html
