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Ben van Kerkwyk

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3884 total appearances

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

It's a very... This is the thing... Here we go.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

So if you zoom in on that...

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

So this is up the hill, and these are cut marks.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

It's like a grid pattern that's been cut into the stone.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

I don't know how with what, but you actually can't see this from the ground.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

And we were super lucky in that there was a huge festival going on in the town, and all the guards were at the festival.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

So they'd never let you get up here otherwise.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

We climbed up this halfway up this mountain to get a picture of those cut lines, which is, again, not attributable to the โ€“

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

very basic tools that the Inca had, right, barely in the Bronze Age.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

Yeah, so this is that drone footage.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

Also, because the guards weren't there, they would have gone nuts if they'd caught us droning.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

I think you'd think so, but it's not the case.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

In fact, they're getting worse, unfortunately, in parts of Peru just in terms of the ropes and the restricted areas you can't go to.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

Machu Picchu, unfortunately, you can't get to the famous hitching post of the sun or the central megalithic area.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk

It's night and day.