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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Peru: Spooky Cloud Forest


Peru’s moss-choked cloud forest in Upper Amazon, darker in real life than in this photograph, is as silent as it is mysterious. Nothing moved there as I looked for moss-covered and overgrown pre-Inca Chachapoya stone ruins, now as green as their surroundings and nearly invisible. Not a twig snapped. Not a bird sang. Not a snake slithered away. Not an insect peeked from under a dead leaf.
     The ancient Chachapoya there had rested untouched for many centuries. But settlers had discovered their ancient village and they would soon go treasure hunting before archaeologists could find support for their own digging.
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