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Monthly Archives: July 2019
Shaking my Paracas – part 2
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The Gray City of Kings If you do basic cursory research about the history of Lima, you’ll probably read that Francisco Pizarro established the Ciudad de los Reyes (City of the Kings) on 18 January 1535. For him, this was …
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Shaking my Paracas
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I’ll start with the admission that today’s title is such a stretch than even I have to flag it as a terrible pun that has no connection to anything about the Paracas Reserve or about anything that happened on the …
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See ’em, smell ’em, hear ’em but don’t touch ’em – part 2
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The Candelabra that isn’t The Ballestas Islands are part of the Paracas National Reserve – a protected area of 335,000 hectares (217,750 marine and 117,250 terrestrial) created to conserve both the desert and marine ecosystems of the south-central coast of …
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See ’em, smell ’em, hear ’em but don’t touch ’em
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The Galapagos Islands are among the myriad places I want to visit but have yet to reach in my global adventures. So it was that I awoke Tuesday morning with great anticipation for the tour to the Ballestas Islands that …
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Drawing lines in the sand – part 2
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Real alternative theories By the mid-seventies, other researchers began questioning Reiche’s ideas and positing different explanations regarding the purpose of the lines. (Most serious researchers never took von Däniken particularly seriously.) One of the first and most resonant proposals came …
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