The ancient Chachapoya fortress in Peru’s cloud forests will welcome visitors to a new trail that lets them watch ongoing archaeological work, with the finds opening to the public in 2027.
The ancient Chachapoya fortress in Peru’s cloud forests will welcome visitors to a new trail that lets them watch ongoing archaeological work, with the finds opening to the public in 2027.
Peru is going to put a shiny new trail through a 1,500-year-old fortress and call it “access.” Watch the crowds, the selfie spots, the souvenir stalls that show up before the trowels are even put away. Kuélap already fell to tourist traffic once; the cable car was supposed to fix the logistics, and it mostly fixed the ticket line.