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12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud

Fall of Civilizations Podcast

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The Last Inca Stronghold of Vilca Bamba

Jean Savoy was the first to travel to these ruins and correctly identify it as the last inca stronghold of vilca bamba. Savoy writes movingly about the eerie scenes as he traversed this series of melancholy ruins crumbling beneath green twilight of the forest. A magnificent strangler fig with a spreading crown, some 100 feet above our heads locks one of the walls in a grip of gnarled roots.

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