On one of Florian's free weekends during the start-up of the Cajamarquilla plant, he decided to drive up to Markahuasi with a few of his colleagues. Markahuasi is a renowned UFO landing site... or at least that's what locals believe. He thought that the trip from Lima to Markahuasi would take him about an hour or two. After 6 hours chugging along death defying cliffs they finally arrived at San Pedro, the township underneath the "extraterrestrial site". Florian's small city car barely made it into town. At Plaza de Armas (a muddy square with a white Jesus statue, as always) they asked the town folk for advice and were pointed to the tourist center, which could organise a donkey or horse ride up the hill. Due to San Pedro's ingenious communication system - a megaphone, that bellowed "Turistas!!" all through the village – they learned, that a group of other tourists had beaten them to the top and therefore no more horses were available that day. But being engineers they solved the problem by persuading one of the locals to give them a ride up the mountain in his pre WWII sovjet-style jeep. The "car" was basically built out of a frame, an engine, four wheels, and an "I love Jesus" sticker to keep the gods at ease. But whatever it looked like, it got them there!!
Once at the site, the thing that made it mystical was the mist. Sadly this mist also obscured their view towards the alien-carved rocks. After an hour or two seeing a lot of mist in all kinds of forms (maybe aliens as well...), they headed down to start their way home again. Even so it was quite the adventure.
Once at the site, the thing that made it mystical was the mist. Sadly this mist also obscured their view towards the alien-carved rocks. After an hour or two seeing a lot of mist in all kinds of forms (maybe aliens as well...), they headed down to start their way home again. Even so it was quite the adventure.
