Exploring Ancient Ruins In Ecuador - Face In Rock & Church Built On Side Of Mountain / HUGE Beetles
Ecuador Feb 2025
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today's adventure begins as the
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recording of the Saturday February 15th
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2025 another day in South
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America
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Ecuador little overcast today looking
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there off on the horizon at the
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cityscape of
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quink some clouds going to be getting in
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a van and going a couple hours from
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where I am
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currently just see where the day leads
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going to be with a group a guide and in
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aan those are trees welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here another day here at
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this Roaring River small
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coffees of
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Ecuador venturing off I have it's
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interesting I didn't know I knew nothing
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about Ecuador till I arrived here and
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now I feel like I have a pretty decent
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handle
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on how things work the way the money is
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got a coin purse how everything is
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really based on change you pay with a 10
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they're going to get you know and
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something's only a couple dollars
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they're going to give you all coins back
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most of everything is purchased with
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cash very few places take
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cards and everything is usually a dollar
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or two and you just take a coin out and
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it's just one coin or two coins and they
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do take American currency used to use
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Ecuadorian currency but the only bills
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that are out there now are us but as
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stated it's mostly just coinage it's
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been a long intro about coins I'm going
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to get going get caffeinated and I'm
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inviting you to join me shall
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you I coin that
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price get it yeah small coffees and coin
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purses I love this one though got the
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quink Cathedral on it got all my coins
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in
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here never thought I'd be a coin purse
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guy but you know
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what here we
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are love it about an hour commute
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getting a good scenic view driving up
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the top of a extremely tall mountain
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above the town of biblian
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where as I walk over here after I've
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exited the van can get a really good
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view walking back down the same hill we
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just drove
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up of biblian the
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Town
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amazing just some incredible views here
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in Ecuador of some of these
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cities very
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Scenic and at the top of this mountain
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peak up this Cobblestone Road that we
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drove quite a few dogs down there just
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relaxing is a church that is built into
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the side of the
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mountain look at this freaking
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thing that is magnificent built into the
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side of the Rock
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got our van over there this like another
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van as well bringing people
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up man this is cool take a look at this
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thing right there right in the side of
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the
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mountain big
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Cathedral like there's a city bus of
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some sort coming down the side of the
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Hill very steep
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incline tour tour company possibly
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so it makes the turn there all off to
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make a three-point
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turn this is
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something something else got the cross
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here looking down upon biblian name of
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the town and then you kind of peek out
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again and get the grand
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reveal of the cathedral in the the
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mountain yeah you see this is part of
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the mountain this part of the Rock right
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here
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Jesus Shepherds
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and that's the view looking
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downward we're climbing up up
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up
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just
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steps it is quite a hike to get to the
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top of this
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thing lots of
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stairs lots and lots of stairs
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a virgin here to this part of the town
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called Shala that was in this top of the
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city and he just put the bir in the
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middle of the mountain he put what in it
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a
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virgin virgin a virgin a virgin virgin
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yeah Virgin Mary Virgin Mary yeah oh an
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a statue of a virgin oh okay okay and a
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statue of the virgin used to have with
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him and he prayed for rain to
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care and in the next year 1893 I mean
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1894 the r start coming over a little
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squirk
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yeah it made it started to rain after it
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started off as a sculpture to the Virgin
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Mary and people came to see it and the
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well we know
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that and then the people who lived
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here decided because they were coming up
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to see the Virgin Mary sculpture that
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they would build this building around
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and near the sculpture
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they had cres and stuff to do that with
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this is
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amazing it's like there's a little
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Museum here but it's
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locked that Trum on
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just a spectacular view we're going
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we're going higher no elevators here so
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going to Traverse lightly takes a while
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to get up the stairs there's little
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plaques here it looks like these are in
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recognition to people possibly that went
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to the church or local Town folks
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2016
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all right we reached one Plateau still
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quite a few to go has a handprint right
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there and
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there is a Bird on a
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Wire just like the goldie Han Mel Gibson
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film there's two birds so one is Mel and
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one is
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Goldie look this one's got like a leaf
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in its
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mouth right
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there I have to make a pop culture
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reference has nothing to do with this
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subject matter on a daily
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basis breathtaking up here breathtaking
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and evidently that's a cryp down there
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climbing up that first little section of
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stairs there is the cathedral itself the
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auditorium the door is
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open so going to walk in to the
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cathedral see what this looks
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like oh my gosh it's in the side of the
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mountain here look at this I mean it was
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from the outside but once you come in
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here you can see it's in the side of the
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rock
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look wow of the stained glass windows
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there there's Jesus in the stained glass
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there's another entrance there stained
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glass here's the church
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pews right through here this is the or
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is that just sitting on it that's just
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the that's the original Virgin Mary
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sculpture here that all this was built
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that was I originally started they come
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up here to see that and they started to
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build this whole Auditorium around it
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starting with the center point and then
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they started over here on this side bu
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continued that way and then as time went
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on stretched it over that way and then
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they put the Dome on I'm loving all the
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artwork through here
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as well as you kind of pan this
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direction you got the Ascension there
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you turn this way you got another look
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at the this angle here of the the pews
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I'm assuming they call them pews here in
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in Catholicism that's what they call
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them churches I've always gone to in the
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Christian Community if you walk out this
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direction and you turn off to the side
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you get another scenic view of the
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cityscape Down Below as well and uh to
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get in here you definitely have to walk
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up quite an incline either stairs or a
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walkway
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up and here's a little sculpture here
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also and this is kind of showing what
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it's like where you got the mountain
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side and then you have the little Gap
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there between the building and then over
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that direction is where the the pulpit
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is it's attached into the Rock itself
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look at this there are some Crips this
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is some final resting places down here
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you can see some Graves there in the
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side of
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the side of the wall there and then if
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you look this direction there's even a
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few more really kind of tough to see him
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I don't think we're going to be able to
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go down there but if you kind of zoom in
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you can see a few down in there as well
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that is a big old Beetle right there
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look at that thing
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so I think there's another staircase
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that goes to the top we're going to try
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to get up there
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yeah that line that that bird is on
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dangling on really
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is that take some
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Talent there on the side of
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that W angled wire very steep wire got
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some tight roping Talent there bird
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so here's the mountain here's the
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structure kind of morphed into
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one and then you got these little
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skylights that go down to the sanctuary
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here here's me
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hello okay this is a this is something
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so look at the stair case here
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metal oh more of a metal
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ladder going from there then you
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continue up you could go to the very top
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to the Cross which probably acts as a
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lightning
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rod right up
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there if you were
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daring it's probably frowned upon though
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for a tourist to climb that even though
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there is no signs I'm going to say they
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probably don't want me doing that I
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think even Bo is enjoying the view up
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he's looking for a
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beetle what do you think
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B here a
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bird B knows Ecuador B knows remember
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remember Bo Bo Jackson did you name your
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D dog after your Bo Jackson no
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a lot of dogs down there they know bows
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here those do dogs know B and B knows
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that those
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dogs my uncle just told me that Bo was
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named after bosephus
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country music
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singer Hank Williams junr going up even
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higher going up even
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higher it looks as if they have a rope
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here that's holding up this cuz it looks
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like it might be unstructured sound at
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this point maybe in danger of
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toppling so you got this rope around
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it we have reached the top Pinnacle as
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far as we can go up you got a
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construction update up here any further
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up they're going to doing a little
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concrete work and whatnot but what a
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spectacular
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view we are above the
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steeple looking down upon the
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city amazing
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yeah it's big Adalia d a l l a pinata
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yep that's what it is yeah we saw a lot
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of those in the Butterfly Place
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remember all right just to show the
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incline of this road getting back in the
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van got about another hour drive to the
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next
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spot all right we're going to be passing
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some cows
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it looks like quite a bit of cloud
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formation is developing over in this
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area getting kind of into a little more
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rural area I think we're going to be
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going up higher into the mountains to
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some Ina ruins I think that's where
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we're heading all right about an hour
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drive from where we just were arrived at
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the next
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destination appears as if you can get a
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photograph with a
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llama over here if you want look at this
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a llama right here you can get a photo
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with at least I'm assuming that's what
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this is this is slot very photogenic
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llama right
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here I think that's a llama not an
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alpaca you're a llama don't want to
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touch his mouth don't want to touch his
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nose no
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don't look at them all right llama
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thanks for
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everything good to see you there good to
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see you there all right llama take
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care little shop right
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here little store at the top we're going
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to be doing a tour I guess of the ruins
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momentarily got a moment or so before it
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begins check out some of the items
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got some alpacas and some
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llama stuff got some magnets
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here this must be the attraction we're
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at right
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magnets might have to get one of these
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at some point they've also got little
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snacks and
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things ice
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cream sodas
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Gatorades also a magnet for my cabinet
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when I get home hopefully it sticks
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sometimes but it's not a full backing
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that's what happened to my magnet I got
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London one of them was that way and I
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also got this was a dollar as well this
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apple ice I'm not sure if they have this
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in the States but I've really been
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enjoying the Apple ice Gator rides here
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dollar and a dollar so $2 no taxes two
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coins
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done o it's like a
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lollipop there you go yeah sucker that
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yeah you want one yeah I'll take one you
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want one M no I think there might be
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some alpacas out there yeah you got
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llamas and maybe even some alpacas I've
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been on a a sucker kick
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lately in honor of Telly savales just
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random thinking about Telly saal and
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lollipops I don't know why yeah my Jack
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the Ripper magnet that I got when I was
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in I did the Jack the Ripper tour in
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London the backing of it doesn't stick
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very well so I'm going to have to like
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figure something out with that also
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evidently a couple days ago they did a
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DNA test on someone and figured out who
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Jack the Ripper really was I don't know
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if it's true or not but yeah there was a
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little bit more of a breeze so I'm glad
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I brought my hoodie hoodie with
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me make the alliance and after they make
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the alliance this place was the scenario
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about the two andian civilizations
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canaris and
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inory okay so 60 years before the
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Spanish arriv Okay so so this area was
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more like ceremony place where they make
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the ritual ceremony where they make the
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ritual things pray to their God this
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area was like ceremony Place were
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important priest were living here and
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they tried to pray to their God
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everything you see you see his bases
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foundations of these
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buildings these walls was taller like 2
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m and a half 2 m 80 and the roofs is
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about the straw the house you see there
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it's like a replica it's like the
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example house like for you have your
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idea how Z builds at the time only the
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walls was completely different because
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these walls is blocks of mat and you can
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see the the the different at the time
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was only rocks rocks all the way up okay
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okay about do structures you can see
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here the round shapes they called in the
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K languish coats coat mean silos CEOs
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also you see
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bases where they keep the grains like
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corn quinoa no they have a a circular
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silos for the grains but they have a
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square silos for the tuberculose for
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potatoes for
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okay okay so potatoes and circuit things
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here and then grains here toor
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thece
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3,16
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M so what what is this is this in this
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is in replica
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but the most important and the biggest
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grave was found is right here in the
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center of this ceremonial area he
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excavated like one M 70 CM underneath
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and they found layers first Stones
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Stones pict look at this got an
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alpaca right over here I guess that's an
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alpaca that's a llama right there
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grazing
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very beautiful right here amongst the
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ruins
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right they get the corn they
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need coming over to say hi coming over
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here and say hi come on over come on
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over say hi to us how you doing good to
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see you oh you going to come over we got
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to go around the Rope though can't come
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over here there's no rope the Rope ends
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Right Here Come a Little Closer say hi
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don't be shy no all right not interested
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just strutting along strutting your
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stuff like it maybe what's what's my
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lollipop go go go go go go go go nope
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not a lollipop fan huh was asking these
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animals if they would come back to
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Florida with me if they wanted a an
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extra plane ticket on the way back to
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Florida from here and this one right
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here whispered I'll pack a bag what
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connected we know there Square to down
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there and also you can see some steps
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they have stct with the moon Temple the
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archaeologist after making studies uh
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they describe this area was like a
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ceremonial bath where Inc a chief
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supposed to purification get some ritual
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cleans like with the medicinal and
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naughty plants you know same how the
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shamans is still practic now uh before
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they go into to the to the temples and
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they pray to their God like some rain is
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rolling out I'm hearing
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Thunder this is just really incredible I
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saw some Mayan ruins when I was in bise
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out I'm here in Ecuador some Inca ruins
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actually pre Inca
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ruins then over off across this the
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beautiful terrain here beautiful lot of
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cows down
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there and then you got the city say
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little the town I should say over there
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I guess this was
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built well I think the guide's about to
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explain it back in the 1400s this
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structure right here pretty wild
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Catholic Church more an of this country
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where you can
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see the bases of the church St six six
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kind of blocks of the stone that's where
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you see all these blocks in this area
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okay but the quy like the M where the
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Incas get the Rocks is a 1 km in the
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part North very close where the Inc part
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of
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the also is important because it's the
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only Temple the Inc has buil like in
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oval sh and the
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over 500 years
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old all right we're GNA walk up top to
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the tempo
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delou over 500 years old
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this is around the back end of where the
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guide is oh my gosh whatever you do
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don't look down this is a pretty good
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aerial well not a 360 but a 180 if you
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will from the the top portion of it kind
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of looking back towards uh where I was
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just standing looking downward the haze
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that's rolling in really creates quite
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the Ambiance you see the little bit of
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the haze going there and then as you pan
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across more of the foggy Haze you get
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the got a little mini motorcycles that
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are rolling through the town over there
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as
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well nice nice weather out here I'm glad
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I have the hoodie though cuz it's a
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little crisper here than it was at the
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first spot just look at that Haze
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rolling through the fog just rolling
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through at a very rapid Pace across the
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very beautiful and Luscious green
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Hillside right up hackas right llamas oh
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look at this the parade the parade
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continues parade
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continuing along the historic site of
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the Inca oh it is it's about to come
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down should probably head back to the
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car to the van it
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does is that the end of the
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tour uh there's a little bit more but
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much I think even the llamas knows knows
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it's going to rain they're like let her
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High tailing it the
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storm probably good to brought that
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jacket oh right I'm glad I did we're
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heading to the exit of this but the
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guide said that there is an Inca face
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about a 10-minute walk from here so my
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uncle and I are going to a little more
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strenuous walk over to the Inca face
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that's in the side of a rock going to
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take a walk you got the sign here for
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different things down the little little
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little walkway this is kind of the
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layout of the land here
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behind
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the Inca area I'm going to walk down
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this little pathway here very I say it's
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a rough path
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but you know a little walkway here of
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mud and and
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rocks it's getting pretty
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muddy this is pretty cool look at this
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little little building here with the
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rocks on top of the tin roof to hold the
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to hold the roof in place so it doesn't
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blow away and then you got what looks
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like all the
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plants over there as well little shops
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and stores as you're walking along over
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to the Inca face yeah this is really a
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magnificent
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pathway little walkway here I am
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definitely not in Central Florida this
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is something it's like we got some wild
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llamas up here too and a horse and some
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cows here's the sign Cara Dell Inca walk
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down this little staircase here it's
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start the wind starting to pick up the
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Thunder starting to pick up so I think
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if I don't get rain on I'm going to
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consider myself very very lucky cuz it
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is it uh definitely feels like a
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torrential downpour is about to be
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bestowed upon our Noggin okay so here is
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the face in the Rock right there you see
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there's the you got the the nose you got
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the mouth you got the eyebrows you got
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the eyes you got the top of the forehead
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there's the forehead there there's the
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eyes there's the nose there's the mouth
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that is that is really neat I could
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definitely see a face in the Rock right
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there that is awesome right here in this
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Cavern very deep Cavern Valley over here
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as the inclement weather is about to
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roll in or is rolling in one last look
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at the about a I don't know maybe a 3/4
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mile hike from where we were to go over
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to see the face but definitely we're
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seeing it look at that thing pretty neat
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I got to make it quick see if we can get
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back to the van before the the rain
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starts to really start to downpour
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because got a three I don't know half
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mile quick rompus hike back to the
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probably more like 3/4 of my hike all
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right made it back before the rain
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looking across a nice little view here
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we're going to pass a there's a cow
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right here too look at this there's a a
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walking cow just walking parallel but
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just look at how beautiful the terrain
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is out there cows and sheep and chickens
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cows sheep sheep
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chicken llamas alpacas sometimes horses
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too and sometimes horses too all right
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coming up on a little cart look at this
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thing right here look at that neat right
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now we're going
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some heavy fog right here look at
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this really see out there it's like pea
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soup I don't see any peas in it though
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more
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soup all right it's definitely coming
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down now now
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only a few more days here in Ecuador
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left it's been quite a
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trip not leaving yet but soon very soon
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few days
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kind of nice going to a place that you
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don't know anything
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about getting semi acquainted with it
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and that's going to
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be from here on out what I do with my
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travels go to different places new spots
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not really knowing much till I get there
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and then hopefully
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leaving with some some little glimmer of
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knowledge about said
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place it's a big tree right there
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today Nightfall will be rearing its head
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soon see you in the next video the
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Vlog is over also bonus
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footage do it come on just do it do it
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stay chill