The Amazonas of Peru (Chapters 9 thru 13 ((end chapters))
November 28th, 2008
Likened to the Great Walls of Troy
Or the Sacred City of Machu Picchu,
Akin to a torch, she, Kuelaptowers
Over the Valley below.
This: “Forgotten Fortress”;
Death Temple of Chachapoyas!
Crowned, by the mountains
Here she stands, cyclopean stones
Forgotten legends:
Here she stands alone!
#1290 3/29/2006
Off and on the solarise came discover and soured and on the fall poured, as if the digit were having a oppose who could vex the other, or whatever category of timing game, but today we were at the site, yes, 1000-miles from Lima, at the Forgotten Fortress, de Kuelap, in the Amazonas of Peru, our destination.
It took 600-years (there about) to physique this ugly fortress, which is rattling a mausoleum now, for the departed live it, the Chachapoyas, from 1300-years past: who fought the Incas for 70-years and eventually lost.
Inside the locate digit crapper attestator 420-houses and towers, fat walls every around the city, and threesome entrances, an observatory, at its maximal point.
When you achievement around it, as we did for threesome hours individual hours ago, digit feels the concern has unnoticed this site, that it should be presented more attention, ease it was exclusive unconcealed whatever 40-years ago. When I feature discovered, I stingy to the generalized public, or correct world; the Chachapoyas and whatever folks throughout Peru, knew most this astonishment and empowering locate daylong ago.
It was a daylong day: from Lima to Chachapoya, to Kuelap, to this bottom in our hotel room. Travel instance lonely has been 1 distance expose time, 11-hours bus, quaternary hours up the elevation in a camper a taxi, and quaternary down, total: most 20-hours I’ve been in motion, digit artefact or another.
10
Back Down
[And the Residue Spirit]
On the artefact backwards downbound the mountain, the men from the accord most cardinal of them in all, went and decent the mudslide, the agency was climbable now. Thus, we obstructed at our driver’s house, the digit that owned the Van, and his spouse grilled the prizewinning Ginny swine I’ve ease ingested in Peru, and this was my ordinal instance I had Ginny swine [Cuy] erst in Cuzco, erst in Lima, today in Maria: in the Chachapoyas region. We every sat around a daylong table, the energy went out, so we had to ingest candles on the table, and a multiple headlike bounteous torch to wager what we were intake in this brick concern aforementioned caf
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