Our brand new Inca Roads 10 days Guided Tour is set for October 10th. You can be part of the exploration of the ancient Inca world! Please see the detailed itinerary and pricing for this tour here --> freedombikerental/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=210&Itemid=265 The Qhapaq Ñan, or “Inca Roads” has long connected the peoples of Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia and Chile as it winds for thousands of miles down the Pacific Coast of South America, through snow-capped Andean peaks, tropical rain forests and desert. It is an engineering marvel of antiquity, comparable, experts say, to the Roman road system, but more remarkable for the rugged terrain it has traversed for more than 3,000 years. Linking Cuzco, the Incan capital in present-day Peru, to the furthest outposts of the Incan empire, it carried traders, soldiers and runners, and later the horses of the conquistadors. The road is one of 12 natural and cultural attractions recommended for recognition by the Unesco World Heritage Committee. Parts of it have been adapted to modern means of transport and have been asphalted or even converted to motorway. The world heritage nomination of the Qhapaq Ñan (pronounced ca-pac NYAN in the Quechua language of the Incas) is extremely complicated, involving evaluations of 137 sections of the network embodying 273 components, including temples, funerary towers, fortresses and wayside inns, covering about 435 miles of the original 20,000. “The road network was the life giving support to the Inca Empire integrated into the Andean landscape,” the researchers said.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:40:55 +0000
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