Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Tour to moray and maras, Peru

Moray was an inca agriculture center and three impressively deep amphitheater-like terraces. Different levels of concentric terraces are carved into three huge earthen bowl, some theorize that the Incas used them as a kind of laboratory to determine the optimal conditions for growing crops of each species. The inca grew over 200 kinds of potatoes and over 2000 kinds of corns.

Its nearby small town of Maras produces thousands tons of salt for the incas.

How did the wise and powerful incas be conquered by the Spanish? They thought the white people were god or noble due to some ambient belief. False belief can be fatal.

1 comment:

  1. WMG! So touch and so close to nature! I wish to fly over there now!

    Ling

    10/22/2011

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