As a Peruvian and an engineer, I thank your enthusiasm and true appreciation of their ingenuity, the INCA culture is fascinating,

I absolutely love how enthusiastic and happy you seem when talking about all this wonderful stuff. Please keep up the great work!

I'm so happy to have come across this! I planning my first trip to Peru and will definitely include this! Thank you!

Fuuuuuuuuck that new metal bridge!

I made a video back in 2010 where I actually went to the spot and talked with the bridge master. Used that footage in this video as well, but wanted to present this in the 100 Wonders style as I think it's a bit easier for folks to get into!

I love Andean culture it has such an amazing sense of community and solidarity.

I am proud to be Peruvian and I will always take wherever I go the teachings and values that our Peruvian ancestors left us. Thank you for such a wonderful video.

how is millions of people not watching these shows they r awesome !!!!

Crazy, my professor JUST told us about them yesterday. She's walked across one!

Peruvian here ✌🏽

excellent and pithy - i was blown away when i visited sacsayhuaman fortress and MP - their mastery of stone masonery is breathtaking, subbed, kind regards

They rebuild the bridge every year today as a cultural exercise, but how long did these bridges last in Inca times before having to be rebuilt? How many years, typically? Thanks in advance for your answer.

i love these videos! nice job!

How do they get the rope from one side of a high cliff to the other side without modern tools? Please explain.

This video is perfect for classes.

"learning the ropes: MIT students build Incan-style bridges at Stata" - mit.edu "Inca Leapt Canyons With Fiber Bridges: MIT Students Plan to Stretch 60-Foot-Long Fiber Bridge Between Campus Buildings By John Noble Wilford THE NEW YORK TIMES MIT students learning from Inca engineers. Gotta Love It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I teach 5th grade and show this video every year when we learn about the Inca in our Early American Civilizations unit. It is so well done!

Well its free from nature, but their work I guess deserves payment. Yeah it must be renewed. It is an awesome thing. Must be preserved. Amazing feat.

I loved this!!

Awesome!

I'd still like to know how they make the bridge, other than weaving the rope anyway. How do they get it across?

its funny how I am peruvian and just now i'm finding out about this... the goverment sure does a shitty job promoting this kind of things

1:33 "hundreds of these bitches"

OMG! LOL! Great bridges....aaaand there's Jeff! Another reason that I love this channel.

I got to ride a bike from Quehue to the Inca bridge and the landscape was amazing!

thats awesome

Great explanation, inspiring!

I wonder how they started it

But how do they FIRST span the chasm to connect the bridge?

"A constant product of renewal" is SO native American in culture and philosophy. Their entire system of government was amazing and unique. One of the only true and successful communist governments, the Inca had the good of the people and community at its heart. Sad that a bunch of bullies with firearms made from a Chinese invention favored gold over art, conquest over culture. And yes, I know it was a monarchy and 'the people' had no choice about the matter. But the system WORKED. How many of modern people truly have a say in how they are governed?

Didn't you already make a video about this?

What's happening at 0:34 ?

dude, this is cool

It must've taken an entire village to make that bridge!

Awesome

filibuster obstructa

Absolutely insane 🤯

But HOW were they first built? How do they make the span?

Financial records in fibre.... that’s so intriguing.... mind blowing ...did they hand out receipts in fibre form? To prove you’ve paid?

Where in Peru is this? I recently went on a month long trip there, and completely missed out on this!

It takes a village to raise a bridge...

HEY your videos are nice :D i like your teeth. they make your smile warm :D

Is it strange that I want a bridge like that suspended in my collection of interesting items

It was not easy to built such CHAKAKUNA or bridges. The ancestors had learnt these technologies from previous peoples as The Tiwanakus, Waris, Chimus, etc. They took science and technlogy to an upper level building roads, bridges, water supply cannals, food storages, aclimatization of plants in higher places. As well as progress In astronomy; terraces building, social organisation and information recording systems (quipus and yupana) They ancestors conformed an efficiente society...very humble and simple persons doing extraordinary progresses. Even the SPANISH THIEVES recorded THERE WAS TOO MUCH FOOD in the entire kingdom. Qinachumachu ?

Weaving must be hard on the hands

My mind just got 💥🔥

Satellite imagery shows it is no longer there ;(.

so it's like triggers brush?

Thanks so much. I just wish that you had not used the word "weaving" because the bridge is mostly "spun" and "braided". But still, thanks.

Damn, I’m. Peruvian and didn’t know about these bridges.

I came from online school

Que interesante pero en español también por favor

How has nobody mentioned indiana jones and the temple of doom?

Wouldn't it be 250 bridges if a new bridge is made every two years since its been 500 years?

Why do they try to take this type comradery spirit away in America?

I have to watch this for history.🙄

Just back the camera up three feet, bro

Fascinating, but the narrator talks too much, and is on screen for 90% of the vid. I wanted to hear and see the Bridge Master and the local people.

Very interesting!! But, I would've liked to have seen more of the bridge instead of your face yapping about it. You're very enthusiastic but... Come on!

just show it already...you talks to much