With ground transportation nigh-on impossible, Lowell Thomas informatively and quite entertainingly narrates this documentary that shows the topography of Peru from some 20,000 feet up in the air. Landing only briefly, from time to time, they cover a landscape that ranges from alpine to desert. Machu Pichu features as do the legendary terraces. The "Great Wall of Peru" reputedly as old as the Inca still survived remarkable intact in places, too. Stopping in Cusco, we explore the relatively modern city where Juan Pizarro was slain (in 1536). We look at the complex Inca architecture, at the mark…
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