The Ransom Room
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 9, 2024
In the northern highlands of Peru lies the historic city of Cajamarca, where the great Inca empire met its demise. It was on this soil that ...
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The Band of Holes
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2022
In Peru’s Pisco Valley, there is a strange alignment of thousands of shallow pits. The pits are arranged in a narrow band about 14 to 20 met...
Vicuña: The World's Most Expensive Wool Comes From a Llama
Anonymous
May 11, 2022
Deep within the Andes of Peru gallops an animal that’s treasured across the world. It belongs to the family of Llamas but is called a Vicuña...
Juliane Koepcke: The Girl Who Fell From an Airplane And Survived The Rainforest
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2022
Juliane Koepcke was seventeen and desperate to get home. She had just graduated from high school in Lima, and was returning to her home in t...
Glacier Birds
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 9, 2020
High in the Andes among frozen glaciers, where virtually nothing survives, a small and plump, blue-gray feathered bird lays eggs and raises ...
The Clay Licks of Amazon Rainforest
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 20, 2019
Macaws and parrots of the Amazon rainforest have developed a particular taste for clay. They collect in large numbers on exposed river banks...
Lake Titicaca’s 150-year Old Steamship That Runs on Dung
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2019
The BAP Puno. Photo credit: Peruvian Navy . Lake Titicaca, the largest lake in South America, is situated high up in the Andes on the bord...
Strings And Knots: Inca’s Cryptic Writing System
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2018
While Geoffrey Chaucer was writing The Canterbury Tales in late 14th century, the Inca scholars high up in the Andes were struggling to put...
Rainbow Colored Mountains
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2018
Soil is typically brown, but when mixed with the right minerals in right quantities, it can yield a fascinating range of colors. You can see...
Paracas Candelabra of Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2017
The Nazca Lines in southern Peru are some of the best known geoglyphs on earth, but they aren’t the only ones in the Nazca desert. About 200...
La Rinconada: The World’s Highest City
Kaushik Patowary
May 11, 2017
High in the Peruvian Andes, far above the tree line, lies an old gold-mining camp that has, over the years, grown to the status of a city. O...
The World’s Longest Surfing Wave at Chicama, Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2016
The small coastal town of Puerto Chicama, in northwestern Peru, is home to the longest, the most perfect, left-breaking wave in the world. H...
Sayhuite Stone: An Ancient Hydraulic Scale Model of The Inca Empire?
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2016
About 47 kilometers east of the city Abancay, in southern-central Peru, lies the archeological site of Sayhuite or Saywite, described by his...
The Ancient Aqueducts of Nazca Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2016
Dotting the landscape across the dry valleys of southern Peru, near the city of Nazca, an area famous for the mysterious Nazca lines, are la...
Moche Sex Pots
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2016
The Moche people lived in northern Peru near present-day Moche and Trujillo, between 1,900 to 1,200 years ago, long before the Inca Empire. ...
The Boiling River of Mayantuyacu, Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 20, 2016
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, in Mayantuyacu, Peru, flows a river so hot its water actually boils. The locals call it “Shanay-timpishka” wh...
Sierra del Divisor National Park, Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2016
The Sierra del Divisor region along the Peru-Brazil Border in the heart of the Amazon Basin, constitutes the world’s newest National Park, f...
The Chullpas of Sillustani
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2015
Sillustani is located 34 km northwest of the city of Puno, on the shore of beautiful Umayo Lagoon, in Peru. It is one of the many sites in t...
Chan Chan: World’s Largest Adobe City
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2015
Located near the Pacific coast in the Peruvian region of La Libertad, 5 km west of Trujillo, Chan Chan was the largest Pre-Columbian city in...
Keshwa Chaca: The Last Inca Rope Bridge
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 23, 2015
Five hundred years ago when the Incas were expanding their empire over the highlands of the Andes, they developed an incredible network of r...
