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| Drying Coffee -Road to Tarapoto |
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| Sea of Moto-Taxis. Sounds like being in the center of a beehive. |
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| Gocta and other Falls after a rain in Cocachimba. You can see that the falls are in two parts. If they were just one, it would be the 3rd tallest waterfall in the world. |
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| Almost at the base of the Gocta Falls |
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| The Chachapoyas Fortress of Kuelap |
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| Hidden bones in the walls of Kuelap. Friend or Foe? Hmmm. |
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| Every house had its own Guinea Pig runs. Keep your food close! |
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| A view of the falls from our balcony. |
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| With the exception of after a rain, Gocta's waterfall just becomes mist at the bottom. This mist is what kept villagers from ever visiting the falls thinking an evil Mermaid lived at that base. Discovered by a German hiker in only 2006, it's now the 16th tallest waterfall in the world. |
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| Reconstruction of a typical circular house in Kuelap. The Chachapoyas built circles as opposed to the Inca rectangles. |
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| The Fortress is thousands of years old and has housed many different civilizations and used for many different reasons until the Spanish banned living at such high altitudes. |
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| Nate at Kuelap overlooking the crazy road to get there. Directly opposite Nate, on that road, is about 1.5-2 hours away by car. Two minutes by hang glider. Kuelap sits up 2600 meter high, approx. |
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| Nate's Picture of Turkey Lurky |
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| The stairs of Kuelap. Enemy soldiers would have to stand on another's back to get up the tall steps and as they did, they got picked off one by one allowing the fortress to be defended by only a handful of warriors. |
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| Pressing Sugar Cane. The juice comes out quite brown. |
blogspot isnt letting me comment using my gmail account (i dont know why, it was letting me before) so im using a different one but this is me, Julia : )
ReplyDeletethe waterfall looks beautiful! your whole trip has sounded like so much fun and im stuck back here studying for my finals (they are starting tuesday and end thursday)
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Julia
Ps. Two of my good friends and i have started a blog, its a harry potter blog but i thought id tell you anyway http://hogwartskitchens.blogspot.com
Wow, this post covers a lot of territory. Nate looks like he's dreaming of doing a little hang gliding. I guess if one had to head back down that road....
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Thanks for your note, Julie. I hope your final go well...We'll be thinking of you on Tuesday and sending you good memory vibes!
ReplyDeleteWe did cover much territory during this pictures. The coffee pictures were taken near Tarapoto at the fringes of the rain forest. We really just got there in time to fly out...the trip was about 8 hours by car. I try to think of the car ride as a lovely scenic drive covering lots of topography. But at the end of the day, it's hard to remember what you saw. The funniest thing was that on one part of the road to Tarapoto, they actually dried the coffee on the road, cars and trucks veering around the beans. I guess the black road it hotter and dries them faster. Large sheets of beans were in front of every single house and I couldn't get a fresh cup of coffee anywhere...only instant.