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This is one of the two bridges leading from Huancacaya to the Rosaspata ruins. It's Inca design, stone support pillars holding up a structure of heavy wooden beams and wooden cross struts. It's been outside the community for hundreds of years.The photo is taken from a big concrete bridge, built in the last 10 years, painted in the blue and white colours that feature on all municipally funded projects. No-one uses the big, expensive concrete bridge. The spanning section is made of sheet metal, supported by thin, springy metal rods,that make it bounce when you walk over it. This means that mule trains, which constitute the majority of passing traffic and form the purpose for such a bridge, can't use it. They use the Inca one next to it.
Vilcabamba, Peru
19th December 2009
Was gordon brown involved in the decision making processes for the new bridge?
ReplyDeleteI dont think there would be a bridge if Our Dear Premier was in charge. Possibly a pile of rubble on one side of the river, but that would be all.
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