[HN Gopher] Peru's Great Urban Experiment (2023)
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Peru's Great Urban Experiment (2023)
Author : Thevet
Score : 42 points
Date : 2025-03-16 03:37 UTC (19 hours ago)
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| gignico wrote:
| I've visited Chan Chan during my honeymoon last year, it's
| impressive! All Peru is impressive, north to south. Highly
| recommended!
| yannis wrote:
| Great you visited it. One reads all these cautionary notices
| about traveling to Peru. What was your experience? Did you
| visit on a group tour? Would love to know more.
| gignico wrote:
| Yes, Peru (and South America in general) can be fairly
| dangerous for people used to Europe or the US, but if you let
| you be guided by someone who knows where to go, it is a
| wonderful place. My wife herself is Peruvian but lived in
| Europe for her whole life so it was a new experience for her
| as well. We travelled on a tour planned by a travel agency
| ad-hoc for our honeymoon, so we were alone (not in a group)
| but we were escorted by private guides for all the travel,
| who organized both the transports and the touristic
| activities. Schedules were tight so it was challenging, but
| really rewarding! On top of the usual famous places like
| Machu Pichu I also greatly recommend the amazonian region. We
| went to a lodge on the Maranon river some kilometers from the
| source of the Amazon River and met local tribes (including
| one of the _five_ last speakers of a disappearing local
| ancient language). Great memories for sure!
| bregma wrote:
| I went there with my younger kids a few years ago. It was
| like visiting the USA only fewer guns and authoritarian
| people in uniforms everywhere, and don't drink the water out
| of the tap. Also maybe pay in cash everywhere since no one
| takes cards. Lima is big and like big cities everywhere be on
| your guard in touristy areas because a lot of people make a
| living there and not always through legal means.
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| Hiking the Inca trail to Maccu Piccu and seeing the Nazca
| line in person though, worth it. Just stay in hostels and
| travel by bus. A bit of Spanish would help but we got by OK
| without it.
| smpnav wrote:
| Peru has had a lot of bad press but if you use your common
| sense you'll be fine. I live in Lima, for example the tourist
| areas here have a high police presence and are safe.
| yannis wrote:
| Very interesting article, especially if you interested in how
| societies become organized and urbanized. Two fundamental
| requirements for a city, is a source of water, a centralized
| economy, such as a palace, that stores food and artifacts, and
| lastly be enclosed in walls. I am surprised that no such
| perimeter walls existed, although the palaces were surrounded by
| walls.
| ForTheKidz wrote:
| Yes, who can think of Los Angeles without considering its
| massive and all-encompassing walls.
| mmanfrin wrote:
| It truly would not be a safe settlement without the great
| Angeline Walls keeping Los Gigantes out from the north.
| asdff wrote:
| It does have massive, and all encompassing walls. They aren't
| built like how we used to build defensive walls in history,
| those are obsolete. Instead they are lined with chainlink and
| razor wire, contain radar and other systems for across the
| horizon detection, have runways for aircraft, silos for
| ballistic missiles, magazines for gunships, missile carriers,
| submarines, satellites and other craft in outer space with
| classified capabilities, entire datacenters. It is one of the
| most well defended positions in human history.
| pessimizer wrote:
| The two fundamental requirements for a city are:
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| 1) a source of water,
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| 2) a palace or other place to center an economy, and
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| 3) to be enclosed in walls.
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| We know the last because we have yet to discover any traces
| of the walls of any unwalled cities.
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