Travel review: The ancient cloud forest citadel of Kuelap
Travel review: The ancient cloud forest citadel of Kuelap
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Entering the Kuelap archaeological complex in Amazonas, Peru. PIC: PA
10:00Sunday 09 April 2017
Peru’s ancient civilisations had a habit of building sky-high, altitude-busting citadels. Machu Picchu is the most famous of all, but further north in the cloud forests of Amazonas is a place far grander in age and scale. Yet few travellers even know it’s there.
Built in AD 500 by the Chachapoyas people, the fortress town of Kuelap predates Peru’s Inca big hitter by 900 years.
Sixteenth century chronicles written by Spanish conquistadors speak of Amazonas – a region of tumbling rivers, steep gorges and mountains quilted with frog green forests – as being one of the hardest regions to reach.
It remained that way up until recently when the opening of an airport at Jaen, in the neighbouring Cajamarca region, greatly eased access.
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looks a lot like a structure at Ingapirga in Ecuador.
