The sun came out and off and on the rain

Posted by kide985 on July 28th, 2016

The sun came out and off and on the rain poured, as if the two were having a contest who could beat the other, or some kind of timing game, but now 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 build this monstrous fortress, which is really a mausoleum now, for the dead occupy it, the Chachapoyas, from 1300-years past: who fought the Incas for 70-years and finally lost. Inside the site one can witness 420-houses and towers, thick walls all around the city, and three entrances, an observatory, at its highest point. When you walk around it, as we did for three hours several hours ago, one feels the world has overlooked this site, that it should be given more attention, yet it was only discovered some 40-years ago. When I say discovered, I mean to the general public, or outside world; the Chachapoyas and many folks throughout Peru, knew about this wonder and empowering site long ago.

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It was a long day: from Lima to Chachapoya, to Kuelap, to this bed in our hotel room. Travel time alone has been 1 hour air time, 11-hours bus, four hours up the mountain in a van a taxi, and four down, total: about 20-hours I've been in motion, one way or another. 10 Back Down [And the Residue Spirit] On the way back down the mountain, the men from the community about thirty of them in all, went and cleaned the mudslide, the road was passable now. Thus, we stopped at our driver's house, the one that owned the Van, and his wife cooked the best Ginny pig I've yet eaten in Peru, and this was my third time I had Ginny pig [Cuy] once in Cuzco, once in Lima, now in Maria: in the Chachapoyas region. We all sat around a long table, the electricity went out, so we had to use candles on the table, and a doubled headed big flashlight to see what we were eating in this adobe house like café; it's funny how God throws people together, it was a wondrous evening. 

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