In depth recounting of my global wandering
In the first post about this adventure, I opined that one of the benefits of being in a group as small as ours was getting a high level of personal attention from the guide and at no time was that …
It’s a trap! An empire collapses and the gold disappears. I noted in the third post about the real Copacabana that the Spanish first arrived in the Andes in the mid to late 1520s bringing with them the gift of …
As the ninth Inka, Pachakutiq was not a builder of empire alone. He was also a builder – or at least he oversaw numerous important construction projects. Although excavations haven’t conclusively shown when construction began on Qorikancha, most archaeologists believe …
After five centuries, where’s the earthquake damage? This is a reasonable question to pose in an area where earthquakes occur with some regularity. The answer lies in the ways these builders showed far more sophistication and ingenuity than it required …
Spelling is one of the challenges of replicating names from a language that, if it had an orthography, would still have been alien to the system we use in the west which is why you might have seen and might …