Paititi, the last Inca refugeLegend When Cusco fell the Inca state did not simply stop: a rump kingdom held out at Vilcabamba until 1572, and Jesuit letters describe a further refuge east of the Andes called Paititi, taking the treasure of the empire into the cloud... Open it on the map
The Nasca linesLegend Across fifty kilometres of Peruvian desert, the Nasca people scraped away the dark stones to expose pale ground beneath, drawing hummingbirds, a monkey, a spider and dead-straight lines running to the horizon, between roughly 500... Open it on the map
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