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062 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

• 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,480 Hello, my name is Kai and I am a bit of a rambler. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:07,440 I like to travel, learn and tell stories. 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,280 And today I'm going to ramble on a bit. 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,320 What else has been happening in couscous since we last talked? 5 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,360 Well, I found a bunch of internet cafes. 6 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:21,840 And internet cafes were a thing in China while I was living there. 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:29,780 But they've rapidly declined in popularity as tech has become so ubiquitous in China. 8 00:00:29,780 --> 00:00:35,840 And you only see them in very, very poor countries these days because everybody has a cell 9 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:36,840 phone. 10 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:44,120 Even if you're super, super poor, you can get a working smartphone that most people 11 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:45,880 can play games on. 12 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,540 But these internet cafes are still pretty popular. 13 00:00:48,540 --> 00:00:51,580 I see people going into them pretty regularly. 14 00:00:51,580 --> 00:00:56,100 There was a sign for Lego Fortnite and I guess it's a thing. 15 00:00:56,100 --> 00:00:57,100 So there are still... 16 00:00:57,100 --> 00:00:58,100 Oh, yeah. 17 00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:00,380 One of them said land cafe or something like that. 18 00:01:00,380 --> 00:01:01,660 That was really cool. 19 00:01:01,660 --> 00:01:07,160 So yeah, there are a bunch of internet cafes in my neighborhood and they are still frequented. 20 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,580 So the world hasn't completely moved on. 21 00:01:10,580 --> 00:01:12,300 They're not completely wireless yet. 22 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:15,700 They still have land cafes around Cusco. 23 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:18,500 Okay, crazy ass dogs. 24 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:21,420 Dogs get angry at me. 25 00:01:21,420 --> 00:01:25,180 They've been nice ever since I met a nice dog in Colombia? 26 00:01:25,180 --> 00:01:26,180 No. 27 00:01:26,180 --> 00:01:27,500 In Panama. 28 00:01:27,500 --> 00:01:30,980 That dog made other dogs like me again. 29 00:01:30,980 --> 00:01:38,100 He imbued me with some sort of puppy spirit and it was cool because dogs didn't bark at me 30 00:01:38,100 --> 00:01:40,100 as much anymore. 31 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:41,740 And then I started... 32 00:01:41,740 --> 00:01:44,860 I wanted to go to the Incan ruins because Cusco is amazing. 33 00:01:44,860 --> 00:01:51,740 There are Incan ruins around the city within walking distance, within easy walking distance. 34 00:01:51,740 --> 00:01:54,220 So I... 35 00:01:54,220 --> 00:01:55,820 After a week here, I was like, "I gotta go. 36 00:01:55,820 --> 00:01:57,300 I gotta go check out these ruins." 37 00:01:57,300 --> 00:02:00,180 And they were as cool as I hoped they were going to be. 38 00:02:00,180 --> 00:02:01,180 They were cooler. 39 00:02:01,180 --> 00:02:07,540 I was really overwhelmed, flabbergasted, jaw dropped, seeing these ruins and they weren't 40 00:02:07,540 --> 00:02:14,340 particularly intricate but just looking at the walls and how well the stones fit together, 41 00:02:14,340 --> 00:02:15,340 boggled my mind. 42 00:02:15,340 --> 00:02:18,460 It was so cool going to these places. 43 00:02:18,460 --> 00:02:25,020 But on the hike up there, these dogs went total nut balls on me and I was going up there 44 00:02:25,020 --> 00:02:26,020 in the morning too. 45 00:02:26,020 --> 00:02:28,700 The dogs are pretty docile during the day. 46 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:34,460 But during less like popular times of the day, like really early morning, really late night 47 00:02:34,460 --> 00:02:39,020 or during the night, the dogs bark and are more aggressive. 48 00:02:39,020 --> 00:02:46,020 So I was walking up through sort of remote neighborhoods so that I could make my way. 49 00:02:46,020 --> 00:02:50,180 I was just following trails on my offline map which led me through neighborhoods, up 50 00:02:50,180 --> 00:02:54,340 through a forest and then I could get to these archaeological sites, these Incan ruins 51 00:02:54,340 --> 00:02:58,380 that I really wanted to seek as of those walls did not disappoint. 52 00:02:58,380 --> 00:03:07,980 But on the way, small twisty roads and dusty old buildings and dogs not used to seeing 53 00:03:07,980 --> 00:03:11,860 a lot of people and no dogs are on leashes in the city. 54 00:03:11,860 --> 00:03:13,860 They just don't do leashes here. 55 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:22,220 So they started barking at me and I was like, "Oh no, my Panama puppy spirit is waning." 56 00:03:22,220 --> 00:03:28,340 And the dogs were angry but I remembered reading in a guidebook that if you pick up something 57 00:03:28,340 --> 00:03:32,660 and I always have a dog whacking stick or I did in Thailand and you pick up a stick, dogs 58 00:03:32,660 --> 00:03:34,940 will stay away and I just did that here. 59 00:03:34,940 --> 00:03:40,580 I picked up a stick or a rock and just holding something and then the dogs leave you alone. 60 00:03:40,580 --> 00:03:44,540 They might bark but they're not going to attack because you're holding something. 61 00:03:44,540 --> 00:03:50,180 And I was walking up to a mountain with one of the seven Vita so I could take a beer 62 00:03:50,180 --> 00:03:51,500 picture. 63 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:55,620 Here's this community on let me call beer with the view and I was going to take a picture 64 00:03:55,620 --> 00:04:00,700 of me holding the beer on the mountain which is what we do in that community because we're 65 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:01,820 weirdos. 66 00:04:01,820 --> 00:04:06,460 And a local saw me walking and saw a dog barking at me and he just leaned down, picked up 67 00:04:06,460 --> 00:04:10,740 a rock and showed it to the dog and the dog shut up and just walked away calmly. 68 00:04:10,740 --> 00:04:12,500 Like, "Okay fine." 69 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:17,380 But if you're local, they won't bark at you but if you are not local, the dogs can smell 70 00:04:17,380 --> 00:04:23,420 it or see it whatever it is and they are very loud and barking at me for being a foreigner. 71 00:04:23,420 --> 00:04:26,980 That's very common in a lot of countries. 72 00:04:26,980 --> 00:04:32,340 Dogs know if you ain't from there and they're rude about it. 73 00:04:32,340 --> 00:04:37,260 The hostess insisted on coming up to the apartment to talk to me. 74 00:04:37,260 --> 00:04:41,220 I think she wants to practice English, I'm not sure, but she always tries to get inside 75 00:04:41,220 --> 00:04:42,220 the apartment. 76 00:04:42,220 --> 00:04:48,140 So, like after I moved in after I was here for a week, she insisted she had a bunch of... 77 00:04:48,140 --> 00:04:51,900 She said she had something to give me or something. 78 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:54,740 It was all in Spanish and I was like, "Yeah, okay." 79 00:04:54,740 --> 00:05:00,900 And she came up and she didn't have anything to give me but she did tell me about all these 80 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:04,060 things about the neighborhood that I had already figured out after a week because I'm 81 00:05:04,060 --> 00:05:07,540 very, you know, exploration oriented. 82 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:11,820 I walk around the city, I find the restaurants right away, I figure out how the transportation 83 00:05:11,820 --> 00:05:14,300 works, the markets, all that kind of stuff. 84 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:18,020 But many travelers are not as bold. 85 00:05:18,020 --> 00:05:21,620 Nah, that's too complimentary for me, right? 86 00:05:21,620 --> 00:05:24,580 Many travelers aren't self-directed. 87 00:05:24,580 --> 00:05:27,420 They are not as self-directed as I am. 88 00:05:27,420 --> 00:05:31,380 And I assume that's what she thought because instead of asking me if I knew any of this 89 00:05:31,380 --> 00:05:36,660 stuff, she just explained where the market was, which I had already found, where the supermarkets 90 00:05:36,660 --> 00:05:42,340 were that I already found, how to take the bus, which I know, just a whole bunch of stuff 91 00:05:42,340 --> 00:05:44,620 that I was already aware of. 92 00:05:44,620 --> 00:05:45,780 She seems nice though. 93 00:05:45,780 --> 00:05:48,460 She's just busy. 94 00:05:48,460 --> 00:05:54,180 She... her nose is sticking into my business. 95 00:05:54,180 --> 00:05:56,380 But I'm also very sensitive to that. 96 00:05:56,380 --> 00:05:59,860 I like to do everything self-directed. 97 00:05:59,860 --> 00:06:03,940 And so I'm probably more sensitive to that than she's actually being a pain in the butt 98 00:06:03,940 --> 00:06:05,020 because she only... 99 00:06:05,020 --> 00:06:09,820 She's done it a few times, but she gets the picture and stays away after a little while. 100 00:06:09,820 --> 00:06:14,700 Okay, let's talk about my water filter because it's frickin' awesome. 101 00:06:14,700 --> 00:06:15,700 And... 102 00:06:15,700 --> 00:06:20,020 Yeah, I'll do the archeology sites, the Incan Ruins all at one time. 103 00:06:20,020 --> 00:06:27,700 But at those Incan sites, there was a bunch of fire, like campfires that had burned out. 104 00:06:27,700 --> 00:06:31,180 And when I saw that, I was like, "Ooh, activated carbon." 105 00:06:31,180 --> 00:06:36,380 So if you burn wood at a fairly low heat, like a regular heat, like a campfire does, you'll 106 00:06:36,380 --> 00:06:39,100 have activated carbon at the end of it. 107 00:06:39,100 --> 00:06:47,740 And that has an enormous, enormous surface area because the carbon activated carbon after 108 00:06:47,740 --> 00:06:51,420 wood burns, it becomes so porous. 109 00:06:51,420 --> 00:06:56,700 So there's just holes going through every little, little piece, every powder piece of this 110 00:06:56,700 --> 00:07:04,220 has an absurd amount of holes, thousands of holes on each little thing, and divots and 111 00:07:04,220 --> 00:07:05,220 holes. 112 00:07:05,220 --> 00:07:11,380 So instead of a ball, which would have a low surface area, this is a cratered sphere, 113 00:07:11,380 --> 00:07:13,420 which has an immense surface area. 114 00:07:13,420 --> 00:07:16,860 Every time you have a new crater, you have extra surface area. 115 00:07:16,860 --> 00:07:24,820 One gram of activated carbon is 3,000 meter squared, which is 32,000 square feet. 116 00:07:24,820 --> 00:07:33,500 So one gram, that's like a pinch of activated carbon, is 32,000 square feet of surface area. 117 00:07:33,500 --> 00:07:36,220 So it's a very effective filter. 118 00:07:36,220 --> 00:07:41,220 So when I saw these campfires around the Incan Ruins, I was like, "Man, I still have not 119 00:07:41,220 --> 00:07:43,300 made a water filter. 120 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:45,060 They don't have a water filter in my apartment. 121 00:07:45,060 --> 00:07:49,820 They do have a kettle, but you can taste that there are still minerals and metals and 122 00:07:49,820 --> 00:07:52,540 stuff in the water, even after it's treated." 123 00:07:52,540 --> 00:07:57,020 Because there are treatment plants all around Kusko, water treatment plants. 124 00:07:57,020 --> 00:08:05,660 So I took some activated carbon, like some burnt branches, and I brought them home, and 125 00:08:05,660 --> 00:08:09,140 I crushed them up with the ends of the chopsticks that I have. 126 00:08:09,140 --> 00:08:17,220 I just crushed them slowly up in a bowl, and then I put a layer of cotton on the bottom 127 00:08:17,220 --> 00:08:18,220 of... 128 00:08:18,220 --> 00:08:20,380 I cut off the bottom of a bottle. 129 00:08:20,380 --> 00:08:24,260 I heated up the tip of a... 130 00:08:24,260 --> 00:08:29,700 Something, maybe a knife, or it was really small, it was some kind of poke thing. 131 00:08:29,700 --> 00:08:34,060 And then poked a little hole in the cap of the bottle, cut off the bottom of the bottle, 132 00:08:34,060 --> 00:08:41,460 put some cotton on the bottom, as like a regular filter, put an inch of activated carbon, 133 00:08:41,460 --> 00:08:45,620 like powder to activated carbon, on top of that cotton. 134 00:08:45,620 --> 00:08:49,960 And that is a basic filter, because the activated carbon is going to do most of the 135 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:51,120 filtering. 136 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:55,440 So I poured some water in, and because I didn't have anything holding the carbon down, it 137 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:00,920 just became this huge black cloud of activated carbon mixed with water, and I was like, "Ooh, 138 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:02,280 did I do this wrong?" 139 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:07,120 But as it drained out, all the activated carbon, most of it went down with the water level 140 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,000 some stayed on the side of the bottle. 141 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:14,120 But the water that came out was perfectly clear, like, and it tasted way better right 142 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:15,120 away. 143 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:16,960 So I was like, "Holy crap, it works." 144 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:21,040 And I was so happy with that, because the water didn't taste perfect, but it tasted much 145 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:26,440 cleaner, much more pleasant, much more pure watery than it had before. 146 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,040 So I was very excited about that. 147 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:32,520 I used it for a few days before I was like, "Okay, this works so good. 148 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:39,080 I should just put in more activated carbon and make this a better filter." 149 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:44,360 So I went back to the sites, I got way too much activated carbon. 150 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:49,200 I filled most of the backpack with activated carbon, and when I got home, I was like, "Oh, 151 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:50,320 I took so much. 152 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:51,320 This is crazy." 153 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:55,480 But it's just leftover burnt wood from a campfire, so it's not like anyone's going to miss 154 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:56,480 it. 155 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,740 It was just, I don't need that much. 156 00:09:58,740 --> 00:10:02,000 And I also realized that I have a blender. 157 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,840 So instead of crushing it with the chopsticks myself very slowly, I just threw a couple chunks 158 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:11,920 in the blender and blended them for a few seconds, and I had all the powdered activated 159 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:13,520 carbon I needed. 160 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:20,280 So I got a bunch of that in like 10 minutes of processing the activated carbon into powder. 161 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:30,280 I poured two hefty inches, maybe two and a half, three inches more of activated carbon onto 162 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:31,560 the first layer. 163 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:35,160 Oh, I put on one extra layer of cotton. 164 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:40,840 So now I have cotton, one inch of activated carbon, cotton, two plus inches of activated 165 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:41,840 carbon powder. 166 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:47,720 And then I put on one more piece of cotton, and then I sterilized a handful of pebbles 167 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:49,400 that I had picked up off the side of the road. 168 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,920 I just boiled them in water for a few minutes, and then I put those on top of the cotton to 169 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:55,760 hold the cotton down. 170 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:01,080 So now when I pour in the water, it doesn't mix with the activated carbon and make a mess 171 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:02,600 all around the bottle. 172 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,400 It just acts like a regular filter. 173 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:05,800 I poured over the rocks. 174 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,160 It filters through cotton, activated carbon, cotton, activated carbon cotton. 175 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,040 It goes out, I'm not going to say pure, but it tastes extreme. 176 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,680 It tastes as good as water filtered through a brittafilter with taste. 177 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:20,920 It tastes very filtered, very pure water. 178 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,800 So the extra two inches of activated carbon made a significant difference. 179 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:34,960 If I had a bigger like pitcher, because right now I put this upside down bottle in the mouth 180 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:41,520 of a pitcher, and then pour boiled and cooled down water into it, and then the water is filtered 181 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:45,400 down into that pitcher, which I can then pour into my glass. 182 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:50,960 If I had a larger pitcher, then I would probably use a two liter bottle and just see how pure 183 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,240 I could get it with this activated carbon. 184 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,840 Because I have so much in it makes such a difference. 185 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,320 It's really interesting. 186 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,120 But anyway, it works great. 187 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:06,960 I have this great water filter that just like the bottle bidet I'm using, I can make a 188 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:10,840 new one every single place I go because there's always a campfire somewhere. 189 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,200 Someone has always burned wood somewhere, and all I need is like a fist sized piece of 190 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:19,520 wood, and that's plenty to start with this basic filter. 191 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:24,440 So yeah, anywhere I go from now on, I've been living with, that's okay. 192 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:25,520 The water has been treated. 193 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:30,680 But I boil it, let it cool down, taste a little smoother, minerally, or whatever, but now I 194 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:37,280 know I can just get any little water bottle, cut off the bottom of it, some cotton activated 195 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:40,880 carbon, and I have tasty pure water again. 196 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:46,120 So I'm very excited about this because it was very easy to make. 197 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:50,240 I checked everything before I made just to make sure I understood the science correctly, 198 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,120 and yes, it is just activated carbon will do this. 199 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,680 And it was a resounding success. 200 00:12:56,680 --> 00:13:02,560 The water tastes so much improved and so delicious after using it. 201 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:07,520 I cannot recommend it enough if you need a water filter and don't want to spend $30 on 202 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:08,760 a breda. 203 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,200 Just get one of these, they work great. 204 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,480 I'm very confused how the soy or filters work because they're rated for up to 100,000 205 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:23,480 liters. 206 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:25,800 They're these soy or mini filters, and I can't imagine how you can filter that many. 207 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:27,800 They must not use activated carbon, I don't know. 208 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,480 But anyway, my homemade filter works. 209 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:35,520 I'm going to keep using it in the future whenever I need a water filter. 210 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:40,600 When I homestead and make my own house, I'm going to be making this kind of water filter. 211 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:45,200 I won't be buying a breda or other kind of water filter. 212 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:46,600 People certainly be making my own. 213 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:52,920 If I don't use this method specifically, then I'm going to be using a clay method instead. 214 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:54,920 But activated carbon works so well. 215 00:13:54,920 --> 00:14:02,680 I can have a campfire with friends and make a giant activated carbon water filter that 216 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:06,040 will last for months or a year depending on the size. 217 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,920 Okay, what other cool stuff has been going on? 218 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:09,920 Peatsas. 219 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:11,920 So, Kusko really likes pizzas. 220 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:16,220 There's pizzas all around the city, like regular restaurants, and then there's also street 221 00:14:16,220 --> 00:14:20,560 pizzas, which only cost a buck and a half. 222 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,160 They're very cheap, maybe $2 at the most. 223 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:30,520 And it's a little personal pan pizza, but they actually make them in little wood-fired pizza 224 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:32,240 ovens. 225 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:34,240 So you order pizza. 226 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:35,800 They usually have a few different kinds. 227 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:37,880 They have sweet pizzas here also, which I haven't gotten yet. 228 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:39,120 I'm probably not going to. 229 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:45,400 I usually get to say everyone, but you can order meat pizza or ham pizza, ham and cheese. 230 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:50,880 And they'll pull out this tiny little pizza that's pre-topped, like that's pre-made, that 231 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:51,880 they made, I mean. 232 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,360 They don't buy it from somewhere. 233 00:14:54,360 --> 00:15:02,680 And then they have a little igloo-shaped wood-fired pizza oven on the cart, and they have a 234 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,960 real pizza spatula. 235 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,680 And they pick up little pizza and put it in the oven. 236 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:10,560 They spin it around a couple times. 237 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:16,360 And then after a few minutes you have this authentic pizza oven pizza coming out for two 238 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:21,200 bucks, and it's not like the best thing ever, but it's better than a lot of pizzas in other 239 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,200 countries I've had because it's made in a real pizza oven. 240 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,680 So the cheese is browned and the bottom is a little blackened. 241 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:28,680 It's really good. 242 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:29,680 It's tasty pizzas. 243 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,320 I've got a few of them already. 244 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:39,240 And it's just really cool seeing the miniature authentic pizza ovens too. 245 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:43,000 And they're all made out of clay, so they have like cracks going through them and stuff 246 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,440 because they've been used for years. 247 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:46,440 They're just really cool. 248 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,280 I like all the street food here a lot. 249 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:53,640 And I was so delighted when I saw the first pizza oven that I immediately got a pizza. 250 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,880 And then I noticed around me, there's a lot of these little pizza ovens that people 251 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,000 card around and make pizza in. 252 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,320 So good on you, cool pizza makers in Kusko. 253 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:04,640 Oh, and this is funny. 254 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:09,320 At the supermarket, my favorite supermarket here is called Lakhanastha. 255 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:15,400 And actually my favorite Lakhanastha, because there are a few in the city, is the one down 256 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:18,840 the street from me like a 20 minute walk or something. 257 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:23,600 Because I guess because it's further out of the city, I actually don't understand why, 258 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:28,560 but they generally have better produce and better everything at this one store that 259 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,160 I like to go to. 260 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:35,360 And I go there fairly frequently like every other day because I'm always getting fresh 261 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:40,000 food to make my vegetable dip that I eat with potato chips or those smoked ribs. 262 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,160 I will eat those a lot. 263 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:47,520 But I've noticed I used to listen to podcasts walking around while I was shopping and then 264 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:53,320 I heard this good song playing on the radio so I took off my headphones while I was walking 265 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,040 around the store and then I was like, "Oh, the next song is good too." 266 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:57,040 Oh, so is the next one. 267 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,880 And I realize I like the music at this supermarket. 268 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:06,720 I don't know if it's the equivalent of like pop garbage like in the States, just like really 269 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:12,840 boring generic songs, but I like all the music they play at this one supermarket. 270 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:17,680 So it's kind of fun going on each trip because when I get in there, I'm not blocking myself 271 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,760 off from the world by listening to my headphones, which is what I'm usually doing. 272 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,720 I'm usually listening to a podcast or my own music. 273 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:29,680 I'm just shopping with everybody else listening to like, "Bew, Bew, Bew, Bew, Bew, Bew, Bew, 274 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:30,680 Bew." 275 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:37,960 Like these regular Spanish-speaking Peruvian pop songs, it's a lot of fun liking the supermarket 276 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:39,680 music for a change. 277 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:41,880 Not a common experience for me. 278 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,200 Okay, Incan Ruins. 279 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:52,040 Let's talk about Incan Ruins because I went to the Incan Ruins. 280 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:53,960 They're crazy. 281 00:17:53,960 --> 00:18:01,200 So I had 20 different sites or so marked around a Cusco to go to. 282 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:05,880 And there's one very popular touristy one called Saxe-Waman, which I probably will still 283 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,640 go to because it's in Cusco, but it's touristy. 284 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:10,760 I don't want to go there right away. 285 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:12,480 It's not super close to me. 286 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,880 And there are closer archaeological sites. 287 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,320 So I walked to them. 288 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:20,000 The dogs barked at me, but I still walk to each place. 289 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,760 And when I get to a place, I'm marking on my map. 290 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:27,840 And then I remove it from my map after I reach that place and I see what it is. 291 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:34,840 So I had 20 and by the end of the first morning, I had gone through like seven or eight of them. 292 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:39,320 And they were mostly just empty grass lots with maybe a wall somewhere, but usually not 293 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:44,600 just an empty grass field that I couldn't tell anything from, but they were being kept 294 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:45,600 empty. 295 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:47,320 So I guess they were archaeological sites. 296 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:49,360 Maybe some pottery was found there. 297 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:51,120 There wasn't a lot to see. 298 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:56,840 But I just kept going because I do this in every country and I mark all the things and then 299 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,040 remove them from the map as I check them out. 300 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:02,360 And eventually I usually find something pretty cool. 301 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:09,640 And after yes, seven or eight of them, the next one I had to climb up a different mountain, 302 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:10,960 20 minutes away. 303 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:19,400 And I started going through this insane forest of like, spear mint trees that are called 304 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:24,480 cajito according to a local, that might be the catch-wow word because I still don't know 305 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,320 what kind of tree that is. 306 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:33,520 This thing said it was a eucalyptus blue gum, some plant identifier app that I tried, but 307 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:41,400 they smell super strong like altoid winter green mints from literally hundreds of feet away. 308 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,840 I could smell them. 309 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:48,440 And what's really interesting is the smell didn't get much stronger as I got closer to the 310 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:49,440 trees. 311 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:55,000 It was just like whatever their scent was could carry very far distances. 312 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,280 So I could smell it from a hundred feet away. 313 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:01,360 And if I was standing next to them, I could smell them, but it didn't become overpowering. 314 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:06,320 It was just that same very nice winter green smell. 315 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:10,360 And because it smells so nice, I took a leaf off and bit it and chewed into it. 316 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:12,680 And if I chewed it too much, it became pretty bitter. 317 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,800 But if I just chewed it a couple times and then spit it out, I had this winter green 318 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,480 tasting my mouth just like an altoid. 319 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,520 It was very bizarre. 320 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:28,120 And I still am curious about what kind of trees exactly those are. 321 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:29,880 Carhito, carhito. 322 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,240 The guy said it carhito like that. 323 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,840 But I don't know, I can find it. 324 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:39,960 I'll still look later probably, but I'm happy just knowing they're there because I saw 325 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,600 one and I just smelled this one tree from a hundred feet away. 326 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,520 And when I got to it, I was like, oh my gosh, I think it's this thing. 327 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:50,360 With these silvery green look and leaves, and it looked so cool. 328 00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:52,480 I was really into it. 329 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:57,520 And also I found out, okay, I'll tell it that in a minute. 330 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:58,760 So they smell super strong. 331 00:20:58,760 --> 00:20:59,760 I chewed one. 332 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,680 I found the first one and I was like, wow, that's an amazing tree. 333 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,000 But it wasn't, it was on the way, but I had to continue down the path. 334 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,280 So I kept going. 335 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:13,200 And then I came across like ten of them in a bunch and I was so excited. 336 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:17,720 And there was a path that led to the first ink and ruins I was going to. 337 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:19,040 And that path was blocked. 338 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,800 So I went, I doubled back and took a different path. 339 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:27,280 And that path ended up leading me through like a grove of the spearmen trees. 340 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:31,960 And I got to walk through like 30 of them or 100 of them. 341 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,800 I don't know, there was a bunch because I couldn't see they were so thickly grown together 342 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:42,920 in the path weaved through this narnia forest of spearmen trees that smelled so good. 343 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:47,880 It was so cool and it was like not a long part of the walk, but for a series of the path 344 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,920 for a segment of it, I got to walk through the spearmen forest. 345 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:53,720 And I was, I was so happy. 346 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:55,280 It was, it smelled the best. 347 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:56,360 It looked the coolest. 348 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:58,360 They're very cool looking trees. 349 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:01,760 Broad-ish leaves, but a silvery green. 350 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,000 The green leaves are covered with the silvery powder. 351 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,960 I don't know, it was amazing. 352 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:07,600 And I checked, they're not coca trees. 353 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,000 They're not coca ina. 354 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Okay. 355 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,240 And then after that, I was like so happy. 356 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:17,200 And I exited the forest and this whole mountain side of them. 357 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:18,200 Actually, that's not true. 358 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,320 So I exited the forest area and then I had to walk for like 20 minutes and then all the 359 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:26,480 sudden I smelled all of those spearmen trees again. 360 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:32,920 And I looked up and the side, the side of a mountain hundreds of feet away was covered in 361 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,600 these trees and I could smell them from there. 362 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,080 And it's such an interesting smell and tree. 363 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:43,320 I'm very enamored of these trees. 364 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,640 And yeah, it smelled fantastic. 365 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,440 And I kept down just like staring at all the trees so happy. 366 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:54,280 And that's when I found that local guy who told me he was on the way to the ink, the first 367 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,360 ink inside I was going to. 368 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:59,960 And I doubled back so I could ask him like, what are these trees called? 369 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:03,960 And he said cajito, cajito, cajito, cajito. 370 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:04,960 See, cajito. 371 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,960 And I was like, okay, I don't even know if he had the L in there, but it's either cajito 372 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,560 or cajito, something like that. 373 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,800 And then he said, it's the round, they like, what do you say? 374 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,560 Estogrande is, it's a cajito. 375 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,880 And he was pointing to one of the giant trees. 376 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:26,680 So I was asked about these little silver green trees that are about the size of any human. 377 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:32,120 And then he was pointing at this huge tree that was maybe a hundred feet high. 378 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:34,200 They have really big trees here. 379 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,920 And I was like, oh no, I'm curious about those little ones. 380 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,640 He's like, see see. 381 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:39,960 So that man. 382 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:46,200 And so that's how I found out those giant trees was what those little spearmen trees grew 383 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:52,640 into because I saw one of the giant trees and they had a silvery leaf coming out of it, 384 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:57,600 like a little sprig of maybe 20 leaves on a tiny developing branch coming out of it. 385 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,640 I was like, that's the same tree. 386 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,560 Hey, Estogrande says, me small. 387 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,840 And he was like, yeah, I was like, holy crap. 388 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:10,320 So after I said cajito at him a bunch of times and he was like, yeah, in the way like, no, 389 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,600 but it's fine that you're trying. 390 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,840 I kept on walking through this forest. 391 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,760 Now I realized I was walking through a forest of giant spearmen trees and a whole bunch 392 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,560 of baby spearmen trees also. 393 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,560 Still don't know really what they are, but they're super cool trees. 394 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,680 And then I made it to my first ink and sight. 395 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,040 And I was like, what? 396 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:36,000 My first ink and sight was called the room, yeah, roomy wasee was the first one, roomy 397 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:41,640 wasee, are you am I w a s i and that is if you walk straight out of the city and you know 398 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:47,200 where you're going, it's less than an hour's walk outside of the city to get to this place, 399 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,200 just walking. 400 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,600 There's a whole bunch of paths leading to the main path leading into the archeological 401 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:52,600 site. 402 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,640 There's a whole bunch of paths leading to the archeological site because I took a different 403 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,240 footpath out of the archeological site. 404 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,520 But, okay, it's an archeological site. 405 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:07,040 They have original ink and ruins with the original ink and stones with doorways inside 406 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,840 there like there are some intact ink and walls. 407 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:14,840 The whole town isn't intact by any measure, but there are several intact ink and walls where 408 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,880 the stones fit perfectly together. 409 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:25,000 They're like notched together, which the best theory I know of is that they use acid to 410 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:29,960 shape the stones because they're all made of limestone and softer stones that do melt 411 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:35,000 in acids that would have been available to inkins and other central and south americans 412 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,880 at the time. 413 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:42,320 And I have seen these on the internet and all I've studied these things in ancient civilizations 414 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:47,080 and I'm interested in that stuff, but this was the first time seeing them in real life. 415 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:53,720 And when you go to the site of roomy wasee when you walk on to this site of ink and ruins, 416 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,520 you can just walk right up to them. 417 00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:01,920 There's no gate, there's a sign that says roomy wasee and then you take a step past the 418 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,680 sign and you're on the site. 419 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:12,680 You're walking on the courtyard of this inkin city of what used to be an inkin town or city 420 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,960 and the walls are right there and there's no fences or anything and you can just walk 421 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,920 right up to the walls and touch them and they're totally crazy. 422 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:25,680 But I think the, because they, they're not all perfect squares or rectangles, that's 423 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,920 what's so interesting about these inkin walls. 424 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:35,280 They can have 12 sides or more to one stone and all the other stones fit angularly perfect 425 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:36,920 to that stone. 426 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:41,560 There's one in the shape of like a boot and it had nine sides and I have a great picture 427 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:47,760 of in all the stones around it just fit perfectly into the curve or the angle whatever it is, 428 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,880 all the stones fit perfectly together. 429 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:54,480 Perfectly as in like you can't put a sheet of paper through there you can put, you can't 430 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,880 get a pin into there, they fit perfectly together. 431 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:03,400 It's fascinating for me especially to see because I've always been interested in these. 432 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:08,640 And until I heard about the acid theory, I was like how the hell can anybody do this? 433 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:14,360 I've never seen this in modern society, this type of masonry, anything like this and 434 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:20,720 here I am confronted face to face with this or no, that was just when I was looking into 435 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:21,720 it. 436 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,920 But then I found out about the acid theory and that makes sense seeing it up front especially 437 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:34,160 because the walls at Rumiwase a huge wall has like four doorways leading into the wall and 438 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:40,400 inside the doorway, the rocks are not as weathered on the outside they feel like regular rocks 439 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:46,400 like the rock texture like a coarse rock, rocky. 440 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:52,120 But on the inside of these doorways the weather hasn't gotten at the rocks as much and the 441 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:59,360 inside the original stones are glazed, they're very smooth, they feel like a glazed tile floor. 442 00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:05,760 So it's insane because that very much supports the acid theory that their acid finished 443 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:10,040 at least and if they were acid finished, then it makes a lot of sense that they would 444 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,640 use acid to fit these blocks into each other. 445 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:19,160 Totally crazy one because again I walked right up to it, there was no one there, there was 446 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:25,440 no security guard, there were no other tourists, there was just me alone on this giant ink 447 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:32,080 in the site touching the walls that I've been fascinated by for well over a decade. 448 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:37,680 I've been very interested in how these stones fit together and the Egyptian ones but I 449 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,080 don't think I, I mean, yeah, this was free. 450 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:45,160 I can just walk up to the site for free, hike up there through these trails outside of the 451 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:51,600 city and then I can touch the insides of these stones that are preserved hundreds of 452 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:59,080 years later because they haven't been smacked around by the elements and it feels smooth. 453 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:05,000 It's so, it was so cool to visit these sites and that was only the first one, that was 454 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:11,920 Rumiwasi, that's where I saw all the activated carbon campfires around like outside of the 455 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:17,360 site and that's where I picked up my first activated carbon around that first site. 456 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:24,560 So Rumiwasi, fascinating free site with amazing ink and walls with stones, giants, they're 457 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:30,400 huge stones too, some of them are people sized and way thicker so there are hundreds of 458 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:36,600 pounds, a thousand pounds, who knows, there maybe not a thousand but I wouldn't be surprised 459 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:43,000 if some of those stones were like 800 pounds, they're huge stones just molded perfectly 460 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,960 into place with all the other ones. 461 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,240 Some of them had tree roots growing growing out of them and so they were starting to push 462 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:55,280 the stones apart but that's like hundreds of years of tree roots pushing through these 463 00:29:55,280 --> 00:30:01,160 stones and they have earthquakes here fairly frequently and most of the stone wall is 464 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,920 completely intact like like I said you couldn't push a razor blade through it there's no 465 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:15,880 room between the stones it's amazing it's amazing so that was Rumiwasi and that's when 466 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:20,920 I got excited because I had been walking already for two hours visited seven sites, they 467 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:25,200 all kind of sucked and then I got to Rumiwasi and I was like oh there it is see as long 468 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:32,480 as I just keep going to all the sites listed I usually find a good one and this if I came 469 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:37,920 to Peru and I only saw this one site and that one wall particularly especially the one 470 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:43,640 with the doors where I could feel the glazed surface of the incand stones I would be fine 471 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:50,920 I would be like okay that's everything I wanted from visiting Peru but I visited this place 472 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:55,440 and there were two other places titled similarly and I was like oh my god maybe there's two 473 00:30:55,440 --> 00:31:00,880 other ancient ruins with intact walls that I can visit and spoiler alert there were there 474 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:07,520 were two more there was a tune which was cool the second one it also had walls they were 475 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:14,960 about as big they were pretty cool and then walk a Puku walk a Puku was the third one 476 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:23,920 and it was pretty crazy they had they had probably the most walls at walk a Puku which I didn't 477 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:29,560 know how to pronounce and I was just like yes it's walk a Puku and that was the first 478 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:34,320 time I saw other tourists there was a super old grandpa and grandma walking up and they 479 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:40,160 separated and she was going around the side and he just climbed up this like small hill 480 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,760 to get to this place I was standing which contrary to most Inc and walls was not made 481 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:50,160 of many many blocks there were the traditional Inc and walls but they were surrounding a 482 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:58,240 pretty long like 50 foot long one rock face like natural rock in the cliff like a small 483 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:03,120 cliff and then there was a cave that didn't look natural that looked sort of carved into 484 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:07,200 it and I was staring at I was like why is there a cave there and why are these blocks 485 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:13,480 around this cliff face basically this tiny cliff face and I was walking away just trying 486 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,320 to figure it out in my head and I was like well that old man's right there why don't you 487 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:24,320 just ask him and the first thing I asked him was like well is that is a walk a Puku and he's 488 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:33,000 like no no walk a Puku walk a Puku and I was like okay walk a Puku and I didn't ask 489 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,680 him anything else but he was like hey he called back to me when I said thank you and turned 490 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:42,920 away and he was like no wait wait you see that hole and this is all in Spanish my Spanish 491 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:47,000 has been getting better so I kind of understood what he was saying to me here and he said you 492 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:56,360 see that hole that is what is left of a portrait of a very large portrait of an Inc and woman 493 00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:03,160 that was her mouth right above that where the rock comes out that was her nose and then 494 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:12,720 her ears and her eyes and her her hair flowed off to the side so they made it out of a whole 495 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:17,520 bunch of blocks they made like this block Inc and block portrait of this woman and then he 496 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:25,200 said but after the Spanish came the con conqueced doors and took over Inc and Inc and fell they took 497 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:32,600 away piece by piece her face so her until her entire face was removed took away her ears 498 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:40,000 and her nose and her eyes and her hair but before that was the face of an Inc and woman that 499 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:48,680 like in this town of Waka Puku and I just couldn't that was I don't know if that's true but 500 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:54,920 that was as fascinating a story as fascinating a thing to find out about these Inc and Ruins 501 00:33:54,920 --> 00:34:00,040 as anything else I have learned about the Inc and Ruins so far seeing the walls blew me 502 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:07,720 off my feet and then this guy me and listening to him him tell me this in Spanish like this 503 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:14,760 90 year old telling me it was just amazing and he kept he he repeated a few times he was like so they 504 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:21,000 made her face and then when the Inc and Sfeld they took apart piece by piece her eyes her nose her 505 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:28,040 hair but that is the mouth of the Inc and woman that used to yeah be at the front of this village 506 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:33,720 or town whatever how crazy is that and you can walk right up to it you can go inside the cave if 507 00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:41,000 you want to it's very tiny but I didn't that seemed extremely rude especially with this grandpa here 508 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:49,320 who just told me this amazing story but holy crap on a cracker I cannot recommend Kusko enough if you 509 00:34:49,320 --> 00:35:01,160 care at all about archaeology or anthropology these these Inc and Ruins also very important free and 510 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:07,080 right outside the city like accessible for maybe an hour's hike and most of that like half of that's 511 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:11,160 walking through city and neighborhood you're only hiking for like half an hour outside of the 512 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:18,760 actual city limits right there and you can touch them you can be right there with the history that 513 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:28,760 has been there for more than half a millennium perfectly fitting together just amazing really amazing 514 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:35,480 to see more amazing to touch super amazing to talk to this old man who has legends that he'll 515 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:42,280 freely share with someone who's interested in listening to him and I thanked him so much and he 516 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:49,560 was super cool and he was like okay have a good rest of your day nice talking whatever and it was 517 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:54,520 fascinating experience so seriously if I just saw that one wall of roomy was I would have been 518 00:35:55,080 --> 00:36:01,800 sold but now I'm like I'm staying here an extra month in Kusko I've already decided I'm gonna go to 519 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:08,920 those ruins again I'm gonna go to other ruins for sure maybe Pisaak probably not Machu Picchu 520 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:19,320 but I'm riding on this that's that's the most intact archaeological site I've been to 521 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:28,440 outside of anchor watt in Cambodia which is absurd that is a nearly intact palace like it's 522 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:38,360 crazy how intact anchor watt is but but even anchor watt there their walls are not as precise and 523 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:43,320 each stone isn't as massive as the ones in these Inc. and walls 524 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:51,320 amazing I really want to experiment with acid and limestone and see if I can make an Inc. and wall 525 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:55,720 I have looked for experiments of this I can't believe nobody has experimented with this yet 526 00:36:55,720 --> 00:37:02,760 because it's fascinating and the theories are out there and there's YouTube videos talking about 527 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:09,400 but I haven't seen anyone actually experimenting with acid and limestone walls yet I want to do that 528 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,920 I gotta get a homestead and then I'm gonna and then I'll be doing that 529 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:18,040 well thank you so much for listening to this I know I got really excited about everything 530 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:25,960 but this is a very exciting city for me to to visit such history so easily and 531 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:32,040 excessively and so close to me and then I can return and get a pizza or like get great local 532 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:38,040 stir fried beef or whatever it's just a dream come true for me as a traveler and the way I like to 533 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:44,760 travel and the way I like to independently self-directedly explore these places and I bet there's I like 534 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:51,000 I said there were no other tourists so I am I feel special visiting these places because I don't 535 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:58,040 think other people go I see I saw a couple other people at the third place at walkapuku but less than 536 00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:04,680 10 people and when they were visiting none of them were tourists they were all local people 537 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:09,800 speaking in catchwell or Spanish and they were just visiting it because it's an important historical 538 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:15,000 site to them but these are all down near my neck of the woods I'm living outside of the tourist 539 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:22,280 part of kusco east and sansabastian so if you do come here live near sansabastian or you don't 540 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,280 need to you can live in the touristy part it's fine even from there it's like the same amount 541 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:33,960 is an hour walk to these amazing amazing sites if you like archaeology history anthropology kusco is 542 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:40,360 the place to go I almost didn't come to Peru but it seemed crazy not to visit 543 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:48,520 while I was here and I don't know when I heard kusco I visited kusco you know was because of the 544 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:53,800 elevation because it's the highest city I've ever lived in and it's one of the highest cities in 545 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:59,880 human civilization human history not many more cities are higher than 11,500 feet and 546 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:05,560 I was curious about the elevation and then when I landed in Peru I was like oh wait is this like the 547 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:10,920 Incens which I'm like I said very interested in and then I checked and I saw the archaeological 548 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:15,640 sites on my offline map and I was like oh my gosh I can go see maybe I'll be able to see a wall or 549 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:22,840 something and wildest expectations surpassed already and apparently I'm at the boring ruins 550 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:29,080 sexe waman supposed to be better and more developed so I and then much peachy of course 551 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:35,400 much of peach you just too touristy I don't think I'm going to go there but I'm so happy to be 552 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:40,280 living in kusco right now and I love the climate I'm so happy to be cold again I've been a tropical 553 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:46,520 climate for too long I've been hot for too long I'm very comfortable in this city this is a great 554 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:52,040 city I highly recommended the people are cool the food is great you can contact me a bit of a 555 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:56,920 rambler at gmail.com or bit of a rambler and blue sky and lemmy it's been awesome talking to you 556 00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:02,280 hope you have a great rest of your day I will talk to you again next week or in a couple days actually 557 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,040 have a great rest of your day