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Timbuktu, Mali

A synonym for “place that is hell exists, Timbuktu gained its reputation from the beginning and the end of a rich trade route linking West Africa and the Mediterranean. All I had to do to get his gold, ivory and slaves north (or salt to go south) was to join a caravan of camels and laboriously for months across the Sahara through sandstorms, blazing heat and isolation that induces madness.

It remains a powerful journey to reach Timbuktu, and although the salt caravans continue to pass through in blue led by Tuareg, the city only alludes to the XV century grandeur of the rich merchants and mosques.

Avalon, England

King Arthur is based on the enchanted island of Avalon, sleeping wounds accumulated throughout the life of the knights, the Crusades, witch, roundtables and magic swords. As Britain ‘king once and future “, is said to return brandishing Excalibur and the Holy Grail to unite his country when most needed.

Today, the modern town of Glastonbury extends over where once floated Avalon.

Shambhala, Tibet

The kingdom of Shambhala is hidden somewhere deep in the snow dyed tops the Himalayas.

Enlightened, peaceful “Pure Land” of the Buddhist tradition, which can be reached only by those who have accumulated the appropriate karma.

In the last century explorers set out to find Shambala in Tibet, which is also where James Hilton’s novel set in Lost Horizon (under the name Shangri-la). Since no one has yet discovered the kingdom, perhaps the best option is the town of Zhongdian on the border between China and Tibet. Renamed Shangri-la in 2001, said to be the inspiration of the place.

Toro Muerto, is one of the most remarkable repositories in terms of petroglyphs in the world. Hidden in a ravine just 160 kilometers northeast of the city of Arequipa , in the direction of Cotahuasi.

These petroglyphs are carved into the rock, and are handmade. These petroglyphs were a form of communication through symbols, made ??before the invention of writing. Toro Muerto is the perfect place for amateur photography. A promising site, without shadows or reflections, which guarantee good pictures.

Toro Muerto is the best place to have good information about the last place, as the museum itself, has little information and materials that show. Toro Muerto has about five thousand blocks of volcanic rock and dacite tuff. His age should be about 1,000 years.

These settlements were ritual centers for thousands of years. Toro Muerto petroglyphs were a relief from the drought climatic disasters caused over long periods of time. Those who made these petroglyphs in the past, were travelers, farmers and herders.

To carve the stones, it was a deep groove, worked hard with stone axes. Toro Muerto rocks show anthropomorphic representations fitomorfas, zoomorphic and geometric. You can see human figures, groups of dancers, headdresses, masks, camels, birds, eagles, condors, quadrupeds, cats, snakes, catfish, watery eyes, straight lines, dots and lines.

As you would think, carvings reflect the lifestyle of the inhabitants at that time. There are other regions of the Andes, where the dancers also appear in the carvings, but in different positions.

The stones are a kind of emanation out of the mouths of humans and animals, is interpreted as the communication between people and animals.

The rocks carved by the Huari and Inca Chuquibamba have left a cultural legacy that was Peru’s National Heritage. Still, there are a lot of damage caused by man’s sake, which destroy and steal. I still remember that man a beam in a Peruvian city walls and was taken prisoner for several months until he got probation. The penalties for those who are caught damaging the relics are very high, and a foreigner could be an aggravating factor. Even so, visit these sites is great.