Kuelap
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3rd Highest Waterfall and ruins again
... went to our fave restaurant. Met several of our tour group there too! Sunday Had arranged to go to the pre-incan site of Kuelap today about 3 hours away. Fortunately had bumped into 3 other tourists who also wanted to go today and early to avoid the ...
Kuelap
... tore across it and we were off. Up, up, up the beautiful but slightly unnerving road that has been slashed into the mountainside. Kuelap shimmered in the mist above us...but the road was long and it was almost nine by the time we finally arrived and the ...
Kuelap
Leves a 3h pour le bus, nous arrivons a 6h a Kuelap, la ville forteresse des Chachapoyas. Les Chachapoyas ou "peuple des nuages" sont encore une autre civilasation du nord peruvien entre 800 et 1470 date a laquelle ils sont conquis par les incas. Grands ...
Fortress in the clouds
... Cuyes (guinea pigs) which is a delicacy here. We have never ordered it but it probably tastes like chicken. We reach our destination Kuelap by mid afternoon, at an elevation of 10,000 ft. Kuelap is a pre Incan ctadel ruin site on the mountain top ...
stone fortress
... see the amazing views before the clouds took over, a common occurrence, this may be why they’re called the cloud people. Kuelap is an enormous stone fortress built high on a mountain top about 1000 years ago. The walls are filled with stone to ...
9.8 km straight up
... 11:00AM via mini-bus along another broken, dirt road. I dropped my bag at the empty hostal, and took off for the trail to Kuelap. I had been told by a number of locals that it would take me between 2 1/2 and 4 hours to hike up to the 1,000 year old ...
Pre-Inca ruins and a lot of time in a mini-bus
... rocks from neighboring mountains. You can even see the llama footprints in some of the steps into the fortress. Kuelap actually contains 3 times more stone material than the largest pyramid in Giza, Egypt. There were only two other ...
Kuelap!
Visite de Kuelap
... On y arrive. Pendant ces trois heures on a mache des feuilles de coca, ca anesthesie les dents et c'est tout. On arrive donc a Kuelap, tres beau, et visitons pendant deux heures et demi. Le guide nous dit qu'il y a plus de pierres utilisees pour ce site ...
Premiers pas dans la "sierra"...
... que c est la glandouille de voyager et ben non on se leve tot, bien plus tot qu en France !!) pour aller a Kuelap, le second Machu Picchu d apres les locaux (un peu pretentieux...). C est un site archeologique construit par les Chachapoyas (peuple du nom ...
Betty and Michael's great adventure
DAY 1 We left our apartment in Lima at 4:45am. Got to the airport at 5:30am. the taxi ride was about S/.40.00 soles ($14.00). the plane was on delay and left at 9:50am. Arrive to Cajamarca at 10:00. Frank, our taxi driver took us to our hotel El Ingenio. ...
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