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28th November 2012 12:26
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In Search of the Ancient Builders in Peru and Bolivia
In Search of the Ancient Builders in Peru and Bolivia
Hi folks , the purpose of this thread is to share my insights and hopefully gain some from more knowing individuals ,my background is 30 years’ experience in the building trade specializing in stone work (chalk, flint and sandstone) but give me a piece of land and I can build you a house from start to finish.
I apologise for any bad grammar or spelling from the offset, as time served on the building site equals less time in the classroom. Please feel free to comment as we take a look around Peru and Bolivia’s ancient sites.
Day 1 was a long eight hour bus ride from Lima down to Nazca, Apparently we passed an observation tower but it was too dark to find, or use.
Day 2
Early start to the Nazca lines, the wind picks up after 11am and you get a rougher ride and if it picks up to much you don’t get to fly, it was also good to hear that their safety record has improved since the last crash.
There are loads of images of the Nazca lines on line, so I won’t bother with my lot , you only get 30 minutes in the air and by the time I had missed my first half dozen I just decided to take it all in rather than watch it through a view finder.
The pilot shouts look left or right and then banks the plane over to see the object he’s shouting about here is a look right moment.
Here is that all allusive tower from last night
On our next buzz past I wondered how much you can see from that tower.
Well they didn’t call it an observation tower for nothing and you can see quite a bit as it happens.
The lines are formed by removing dark rocks from the white sand and mistakes could be easily rectified. My conclusion is they are easy to reproduce with a tower and the bigger the drawing the higher the tower, or you add more towers. Why they did it is another matter.
Next stop Cachucha home to the Nazca.
The dust track to this location is normally accomplished by 4 wheeled drive or 9 seater dune buggy ,not a coach which was my unfortunate mode of transport ,still good fortune was with us and the driver juggled between going fast to glide over the quick sand and steering madly to avoid tipping over.
The Cachucha is an adobe mud brick complex built between 100AD to 600AD, and unfortunately there’s not much left due to the extensive plundering from the Spanish conquest (1533 AD)and this is still going on to this present day. We had to view this site from a distance as there is still a dig in progress and excess is limited.
On the way back we had our first encounter with the elongated skulls first in a Nazca graveyard and then in a small museum.
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28th November 2012 12:28
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28th November 2012 12:39
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