The RoadRunners, Samaipata Bolivia. El Fuerte

It has inspired many archaeologist to reveal the wildest theories. Ranging from spaceship launching platform via rain and season measuring device to star calendar. The truth is: No one knows why it was build, but we do know it was done by a tribe called Moyo coya which lived from around the year 500 to 1000 and then quietly disappeared, only leaving behind the giant sculptured rock now called "El Fuerte".

When the Inca warlord Wanca Nee stumbled upon it while in search for a good spot to found the eastern capital of the steady growing Inca empire, he saw it as a sign from Viracocha (the

highest god in Inca legend) himself and thus Samaipata (then called sabai pata or "resting place in the highlands") was born.

Time did not treat this venture well. After only about 35 years the Spanish conquistador Garcia appeared on the scene with a group of Guarani warriors he had acquired during his remarkable journey from the Rio de la Plata (now Buenos Aires) towards the heart of the Americas.

It would be only an other few years until the most fantastic coincidence in the history of the world would end the rein of the Inca in a battle between 40,000 Inca warriors and a handful of frightened Spanish soldiers. If you want to know it all, join us for a half day tour of "El Fuerte de Samaipata"