Kate Leeming completes her Expedition
TOTAL DISTANCE FOR 2020/2022 EXPEDITIONS – 4354km
This journey began in 2020 (before the onset of the pandemic) from Cusco in Peru, the capital of the ancient Incan Empire. Given the theme of the expedition is to explore what the mountains mean to the Andean people, past and present, I thought it essential to visit El Shincal de Quimivil, sometimes referred to as the “New Cusco” because of its importance as the political, administrative and trade centre for the Incan empire in the south, as the final archeological site on my journey.
El Shincal de Quimivil lies at the base of the Zapata range, about seven kilometres west of one of my favourite towns of the whole journey, Londres, which in turn, is just 15km west of Belen on Route 40. The site is named after the unremarkable spiky shinqui plant, the most predominant shrub in the region…Read More
