Given my interest and curiosity to go and know places, that have me taken me over time to ask. How do the most visited places in a country arise?
The answer may be in the traditions or customs, historical facts or trends, perhaps because of its mysticism, the technology it provides or why it is relaxed, far from the hustle and bustle of the city, among other things.
The most important point for me, it wasn’t the place created, is how this place is preserved and staying over the years. Since some disappear, without even having been appreciated and shared with everyone else.
Unfortunately, not all people appreciate or learn the meaning or importance of a place.
So at my young age, I preserve with misgiving the places I’ve gone, because a place is not only the most striking sites as some think, being that a place for me is made up of the people, the traditions, the food, the stay of the trip and maybe the moments that you live there. That’s why I’m sorry that not all people value the places they visit and they’re just going to take pictures to say they were there.
Maybe one of the experiences that I had years ago will never happen again, and what saddens me is that my own countrymen are the cause of it. This experience happened at the age of 15, my social science teacher incentived me the curisity about visiting the huacas of me locality (Huacas the Paraiso), that have around 2000 years BC and that was been far from urbanized areas. Regrettably, the greed of the people was worth more that the years of history. Currently only some huacas distributed throughout Lima are conserved and others have been invaded or destroyed by companies that the only thing they watch for theirs economic interest.
I know very well that Peru is one of the countries with more tourist places and with a varied food that enchants everyone in the world, but if its own people and its authorities do not take care of the conservation and divulgation of their spaces, these will only be more than a simple memory taken to the history of oblivion.
I leave attached some images that are not all of my authorship but that reveal the sad reality of ignorance or carelessness of a country for its culture, and history that once again shows that the important is only the generates money.
This video is of Marco Gamarra Galindo 29 feb. 2012
This is the news of the destruction of the huaca.
Like this archaeological site other beautiful places could be in danger and in a certain way on publishing or teaching others could help to change people.