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ORO DE LOS ANDES

A journey through Peruvian history. On this route we discover little visited corners of Peru. The intrepid traveller will be impressed by the beauty of the landscape and the imposing ruïns of 3 ancient cultures : the thousand years old magic of Chavin de Huantar, the Inca city of Huanuco Pampa and the Kingdom of the mysterious Yarowilcas.
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The road climbs gradually from the coast and passes lots of unusual rock formations The rock where the Inca cried... The Rio Santa rises near a chilly pass at 4080 mtrs close to the Laguna Conococha Old Yungay as it was just before the single worst natural disaster in the Andes
The earthquake of May 31,1970 loosened some 15 million cubic metres of granite and ice from the west wall of Huascaran Norte The town of Yungay and almost all of its 26,000 inhabitants were buried alive A huge statue of Christ on a knoll overlooking old Yungay faces the Huascaran The earthquake killed about 50,000 people in other parts of the Callejon de Huayllas
One of the survivers acts as a guide in the Campo Santo The old cemetery under a layer of rock and mud A wrecked bus is one of the few witnesses of the 1970 disaster Remnants of the old catedral lie scattered around
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kcgallery19-Dec-2009 20:23
fantastic gallery
Alfred Rongess from Russia 28-Aug-2006 18:16
It is a rich and beautiful collection of pictures I enjoyed very much. I will probably never visit Andes but what you posted here makes a splendid impression of that really miraculous place
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