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Choctamal Lodge near Kuelap. The lodge has the same owners as the lodge in Levanto.
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The road back to the the main road and on to Revash were pretty hairy but nothing compared to the road that awaited us on the way to Cajamarca.
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We traveled through Tingo Nuevo. Tingo Viejo had been wiped out by a landslide and ensuing flood so the survivors were moved to this newly built town out of harm´s way.
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This incredible bas relief boulder was found beside the river road on our way to Revash. Supposedly, it fell down the mountain from a yet to be explored Chachapoya ruin, high above. This huge boulder seems to have a monkey carved on it.
Mounted for the trip up the mountain to Revash, an hour away, straight up.
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Lunch with our guide and driver in Cely´s whose kitchen is pictured below and whose menue is also. Note that a dollar is worth 2.77 to the US dollar.
Trout with rice and potatoes for US$2.50 and a steak with the same fixings for the same price. Not bad.
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The guest house at the Leymebamba Museum where we stayed.We had two bedrooms and a living room with a fireplace where our meals were served.
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The museum was funded with money from the Austrian Government and private donors and houses many important Chachapoyas artefacts and mummies.
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Copies of the Chachapoya sarcophagui found at Karajia.
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Quipus found with 219 mummies at Lago de los Condores. All were transferred to this new museum to keep them out of the hands of looters who already had begun their work on this remote site. Quipus, for those who don´t know, are an accounting system perfected by the Incas using colored strings and knots at certain places in a string to signify something. The system is not at all well understood since the Spanish seemed to have killed all the quipu specialists. We found that the quipus had been used as early as 3000 BC in Caral which we visited earlier.
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Some of the 219 mummies now stored in controlled conditions and available to researchers.
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One of the mummies found at the site without the burial wrapping.
Choctamal Lodge near Kuelap. The lodge has the same owners as the lodge in Levanto.
The road back to the the main road and on to Revash were pretty hairy but nothing compared to the road that awaited us on the way to Cajamarca.
We traveled through Tingo Nuevo. Tingo Viejo had been wiped out by a landslide and ensuing flood so the survivors were moved to this newly built town out of harm´s way.
This incredible bas relief boulder was found beside the river road on our way to Revash. Supposedly, it fell down the mountain from a yet to be explored Chachapoya ruin, high above. This huge boulder seems to have a monkey carved on it.
Lunch with our guide and driver in Cely´s whose kitchen is pictured below and whose menue is also. Note that a dollar is worth 2.77 to the US dollar.
The guest house at the Leymebamba Museum where we stayed.We had two bedrooms and a living room with a fireplace where our meals were served.
The museum was funded with money from the Austrian Government and private donors and houses many important Chachapoyas artefacts and mummies.
Copies of the Chachapoya sarcophagui found at Karajia.
Quipus found with 219 mummies at Lago de los Condores. All were transferred to this new museum to keep them out of the hands of looters who already had begun their work on this remote site. Quipus, for those who don´t know, are an accounting system perfected by the Incas using colored strings and knots at certain places in a string to signify something. The system is not at all well understood since the Spanish seemed to have killed all the quipu specialists. We found that the quipus had been used as early as 3000 BC in Caral which we visited earlier. 
Some of the 219 mummies now stored in controlled conditions and available to researchers.
One of the mummies found at the site without the burial wrapping.
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