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Video Description: Album
Alturas de Machu Picchu (1981) - The Heights of Machu Picchu.
Los Jaivas , a Latin American Band from
Chile, invented a new style in the 70ies, where they mixed up progressive rock with
Andean / Latin music. In this album, they used 1:1 lyrics from Pablo Neruda's Alturas de Machu Picchu.
Machu Picchu is without
doubt the most recognizable symbol of Inca Civilization. "The Inca Trail",
as it is known now, was the Royal Highway that led pilgrims and officials of
the Empire to the Sacred City of the Incas.
What makes the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu so
special is the stunning combination of Inca ruins, incredible views, the
Andes scenery, exotic vegetation and extraordinary ecological variety. Over
250 species of orchid have been counted in the Machu Picchu Historic
Sanctuary, as well as numerous birds such as hummingbirds, waterfowl and the
majestic Andean Condor.
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Alturas de Machu Picchu (The Heights of Machu Picchu) by Pablo Neruda.
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile.
When presenting the legendary Chilean poet Pablo Neruda with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, Karl Ragnar Gierow of the Swedish Academy proclaimed, "Neruda is like catching a condor with a butterfly net. Neruda, in a nutshell, is an unreasonable proposition: the kernel bursts the shell." |
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