the scale of the few sections of chan chan that’ve been excavate and restored is AMAZING— if they restored the whole thing, it would be a crazy mindfuck. even the two sections now are like 3km x 10km and mind-blowing…
the scale of the few sections of chan chan that’ve been excavate and restored is AMAZING— if they restored the whole thing, it would be a crazy mindfuck. even the two sections now are like 3km x 10km and mind-blowing…
like many pre-Cortes pyramids in México, the huaca was built in step-stages up-and-out with success rulers trying to out-awesome their predecessors.
trujillo, huaca de la luna: fragment of massive crazy tesselated bas reliefs…
huaca del sol seen from huaca de la luna. these peops sure could build a huaca! best huaca yet.
huaca excavation in progress. they didnt seem to mind our rampaging around poking our noses/feet/wangs in everything, though.
andrew scaling a sicán adobe pyramid (huaca) at batán grande
…wide open, spaces… (name that obscure and lame band from my obscure and lame college radio days and you win a prize!)
gutted train
the pier’s seen better days. also, the “picturesque” toratora boats people still use are, on closer inspection, just styrofoam wrapped in sandbags sewn into a toratora shell. not to be a stickler, but the tourist video on the fancy bus lied to me.
and what’s an abandoned railroad pier without an abandoned railroad station full of ghost trains? a dicktease, that’s what.
sondor: execution block for “invalids” (anyone unfit for war). throats were slit above/into that little square depression, with which they collected the blood and “READ it for malice” (?).
sondor: another valley
