Machu Picchu risks of landslides, earthquakes and injury due to decaying structures. Nude tourism is a recent trend, to the dismay of Peruvian officials. In several incidents, tourists were detained for posing for nude pictures or streaking across the site. Peru's Ministry of Culture denounced these acts for threatening Peru's cultural heritage. Cusco's Regional Director of Culture increased surveillance to end the practice. In January 2010, heavy rain caused flooding that buried or washed away roads and railways to Machu Picchu, trapping more than 2,000 locals and more than 2,000 tourists, later airlifted out to safety. Machu Picchu was temporarily closed, reopening
Lost City of the Kalahari Clement had found a geological curiosity, dating back 180 million years to the great upheaval accompanying the birth of the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa. The stones are composed of dolerite, a particular type of igneous rock which can erode to give the appearance of straight and regular blocks suggesting artificial construction. On 27 January 2016, the Travel Channel aired an episode of "Expedition Unknown" called "Kalahari Desert's Lost City", in which the host, Josh Gates, found man-made walls and rocks with art work in an area that matched Farini's description of the Lost City. Lost City of the Kalahari