Re:Peru’s Cloud Warriors
by pseudolus on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:36AM
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Both stories are well-worth a read. It appears the pandemic is being used as a smokescreen for a glorified land grab that will endanger the remnants of one of the oldest cities in the Americas. It's a shame that this activity is not getting the same attention that Palmyra and the Buddhas of Bamiyan received.
Re:Peru’s Cloud Warriors
by anm89 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:09PM
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I did a motorcycle tour through South America and happened to drive though here, to the town of chachapoyas and kuelap.
Kuelap is insanely underrated. It's a mini machu picchu, admittedly maybe not as cool but almost, but the day that I went there, I was the only tourist there, minus a few laborers doing restoration work on some of the sites.
On the other hand, machu picchu is pretty much a parse of people 24/7
[1]: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-oldest-city-americas-threat-sq...
Kuelap is insanely underrated. It's a mini machu picchu, admittedly maybe not as cool but almost, but the day that I went there, I was the only tourist there, minus a few laborers doing restoration work on some of the sites.
On the other hand, machu picchu is pretty much a parse of people 24/7
True undiscovered gem.
I have a few pics of it up at
https://andrew-max.github.io/adventure/2017/03/08/vilcabamba...