Tourists Are Getting Naked at Machu Picchu and Peru Wants Them to Stop The Huffington Post
go to original March 12, 2014

Warning - Contains Nudity: The park guards at Machu Picchu will be re-doubling their efforts in 2014, not to prevent visitors from touching the Intihuatana sundial, but rather to prevent them stripping naked and running wild through the ancient Inca Citadel. There appears to have been a spate of streaking incidents in 2013. (Andean Air Mail)

Foreigners are baring their naked bodies all over Peru’s most iconic cultural heritage site and the government wants it to stop.

A video of two tourists streaking across the Incan ruins popped up online last month, Peruvian daily El Comercio reports. The news media picked up on the video and the images went viral, prompting an angry response from the Ministry of Culture, which said the images were originally taken in 2013.

The two people who appear in the video are Australian tourist Sydney Rudevies Liam Timothy, 18, and New Zeleander Topp Mathew Jared, 30, according to a police report posted to the Ministry of Culture’s website. Cops made them delete the image from their digital camera, but someone else made a separate recording of the incident and “irresponsibly published it to the Internet,” the statement says.

“It bears emphasizing that we informed them that it is totally prohibited to take photos of this magnitude,” the police report says.

But they weren’t the only ones who felt the urge to strip during their archaeological excursion.

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