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Inca Landscape

Near Chivay, Peru. On the way to Colca Canyon. If you look closely almost every surface has been terraced. You can also see the irregation tracks that were cut into the surface of the mountains to bring water from the mountain to the fields. The scale of it amazed me. All I could think is that at some stage in the far distant past some Inca or other turned to another and said "Hey...I've an idea. Let's build a terrace..." See large

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Uploaded on March 30, 2006
Taken on April 16, 2007