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LOS ANDES A VIEW FROM SANTIAGO |
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They surround one. From almost any vantage point in the city one looks, they are there; drawing one’s eyes ever up, ever higher, so high it feels disrespectful. So imposing are they it begins to feel perilous to look too long, perhaps it’s forbidden? Like silent watchful sentinels they stand, as if in some Imperial service, guards of honour keeping at bay all who would trespass beyond their border posts into those secret, forbidding realms that lie beyond; where today only the mighty Condor and the ghosts of Incas and their many, long forsaken, Gods now stir; Los Andes, Santiago.
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Travelogue