Wearing golden jewelry and colorful ponchos made of alpaca wool, the royals, priests, and other high-ranking officials feast, hunt, worship their gods, and entertain guests. The Inca capital city, Cusco, is now too cold, so the royals have traveled about 50 miles down the Andes mountains. It’s wintertime, and the Inca (EENG-kah) royal family is vacationing in Machu Picchu, a small city that serves as their royal retreat in what’s now Peru.
