Limatambo, Perú
Picnic lunch on the banks of the Apurimac river.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey once crossed the Apurimac river here.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder‘s second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge.[1] A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928.
Flocks of noisy green parrots inhabit the Apurimac river valley, far from the Amazon jungle, and as high as 2800m. We were the sole visitors to the nearby Inca ruin of Tarahuasi. At dinner the power went out as we visited with electrical engineers Edgar and Victor. Victor asked us to be godparents at his daughter’s christening in Cusco, so she could visit us in the US when she’s older. We declined.
Inca stonework in a flower pattern att Tarahuasi.
