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Location Date North America 1360368000 South America 
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Location Date Lima 1360281600 Tacna 1358380800 Arequipa 1358294400 Iquitos 1358208000 Nanay 1358121600 Antigua Panamericana Norte, Barranca 1357862400 Trujillo 1357776000 Chan Chan 1357776000 Huarney 1357776000 Caral 1357776000 Granja Porcon 1357689600 Combemayo 1357603200 Otuzco 1357603200 Carretera A Luichipucro, Cajamarca 1357603200 Cajamarca 1357516800 Cutervo 1357344000 Cochabamba 1357344000 A1, Cutervo 1357344000 Lambayeque 1357257600 Chiclayo 1357257600 Ancash
1357171200 Huarmey 1357084800 Chimbote 1357084800 Gardenias 1356998400
I took a dirt road into the mountains. There is no vegetation and other than debris on these hills there is not anything. I've not seen such a vast landscape yet, with the roads being the only signs of civilization - not even fences.
Sporadically a mining company claims property rights. The absence of water allows farming only in river valleys, which are often enough dry fallen. Thus settlements are rare. They always seem unfinished - with mud being the predominant color. The agricultural cooperative society though built itself a glass palace in the midst of all these makeshifts.
And in the coastal low lands there's a vote catching guy trying to become president. But isn't the traveler the strangest of the humans lot?
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Tarek Apparently Peru has seen agrarian "reform" (as well as expropriation of foreign companies) in the 60s and 70s. I suspect the agricultural cooperative society is a remnant of that time. Now, as we all very well know, forced cooperatives create (or conserve) wastelands. The sparse landscape may therefore be seen as a jointed venture of natural and cultural forces.
Tarek Apparently Peru has seen agrarian "reform" (as well as expropriation of foreign companies) in the 60s and 70s. I suspect the agricultural cooperative society is a remnant of that time. Now, as we all very well know, forced cooperatives create (or conserve) wastelands. The sparse landscape may therefore be seen as a jointed venture of natural and cultural forces.
Reinhard ... and if we take this further it will end with the sentence and the man was born with just one purpose - to kill himself
Reinhard ... and if we take this further it will end with the sentence and the man was born with just one purpose - to kill himself
fitzgeraldo7 I beg to disagree, With both of you actually: This dessert is not man-made, It predates the arrival of man. - And the meanwhile 5000 years of Peruvian history shows that mankind is able to live together without being permanently at each other's throat.
fitzgeraldo7 I beg to disagree, With both of you actually: This dessert is not man-made, It predates the arrival of man. - And the meanwhile 5000 years of Peruvian history shows that mankind is able to live together without being permanently at each other's throat.
Tarek The dessert is not man made but man preserved. This could be Vegas for Christ's sake. As for the war and killing motif, I know we are on the same page. Reinhard's "born to be killed", Wolfgang's "I guess they have to dig deeper to find the bodies" and I go with Cormac McCarthy "War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him." :-)
Tarek The dessert is not man made but man preserved. This could be Vegas for Christ's sake. As for the war and killing motif, I know we are on the same page. Reinhard's "born to be killed", Wolfgang's "I guess they have to dig deeper to find the bodies" and I go with Cormac McCarthy "War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him." :-)