#inca bridge

[shootingstarsue]

Inktober 2020- day 12- slippery

[latinadventure]

A short hike to the Inca Bridge, with somewhat narrow paths along the sheer mountain side. There are no handrails or fences, save for the occasional bit of stone wall and a short handrail at the very end where it gets particularly narrow.

The bridge itself is unpassable and it seems to merge into the mountain itself on the other side. It's ridiculously thin, so there's no way you'd want to walk across it anyway. Building it in the first place must have been an audacious feat!

It's deliberately intimidating. As Wikipedia puts it: "A twenty-foot gap was left in this section of the carved cliff edge, over a 1,900 feet drop, that could be bridged with two tree trunks, otherwise leaving the trail impassable to outsiders." This only adds to the sense of privilege to be in this remote and previously inaccessible place, lost to time. Machu Picchu is considered under threat, we can only hope that it continues to be preserved and open for future generations.

This is the truly the stuff of adventures. No surprise that this place was the setting for the film Secret of the Incas, which in turn was an inspiration for Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[anthiphoto]

We hike to the Inca bridge on Machu Picchu. I kick myself for looking down.

[inkas-legend]

This is a bridge what i dare you to cross. Inca Bridge, Cusco Perú.