I will be going to this site 14 June 09 to volunteer building an Inca type trail to a waterfall that was discovered a bit over a year ago. It is the world's 3rd highest, even higher than the Gocta waterfall discovered 3 years ago that was over twice as high as the Empire State Building. Would you like to help the village with this project?
These waterfalls being discovered recently are in the tropical north half of Peru in the Dept. of Amazonas. This province gets its name for being where the main Amazon River is falling out of the Andes into the Basin. At this particular village the trail will be about 10 km long and pass under several other waterfalls higher than any of North America. This zone was inaccessible until recent years until after the new highway was carved into the mountain, and the mudslides were stabilized and the road paved. Only 2%!o(MISSING)f all gringos go into the more tropical north while 98%!g(MISSING)o only from Lima south to the Cuzco zone. This area is larger than most European countries and gets almost no tourists. Its ecology and archaeology are as good as the south of Peru. For this it lacks pickpockets, beggars, scam artist working the mobs of tourists, and also lacks snakes, mosquitos, and other poisonous dangerous creatures.
I went there last year and found the natives the most honest, friendly and hardworking of all Peru. They want to have a sustainable tourist trail to bring them a tourist income giving them an incentive to protect this ecology from being exploited. Their project will begin in June and they want volunteers to work with them by paying $20 a day directly to the villagers hiring several of them and horses to excavate, do drainage, and pave this path with them. The village has a decent adobe lodge and meals can be gotten at an economical price compared with most villages of Peru. My daughter will be teaching English in the school and showing movies with a DVD projector. The scenery is spectacular and you can get wildlife and nature photos of creatures undiscovered as well as Toucans, Cock of the Rock, and the world's most exotic and endangered hummingbirds. The daily temperatures at this altitude and near the equator are perfect year around.
Besides this, I have visited these sites in the Chachapoyas area as Fortress Kuelap the largest building structure of the Americas, many funeral statures as Karajia that look like Easter Island statues way up on cliffs, City of the Dead like a city hanging on a cliff as deep as the Grand Canyon, Gran Vilaya where the main trunk Amazon River is cutting out of the mountains to enter the basin, funeral chulpas as Revash, etc. etc. etc.
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