The Ciudad Perdida (“Lost City”) was not discovered by the western world until 1972, the trek takes 5 days (4 nights) walking through the Jungle over mountains and along the Buritaca river in the Sierra Nevada National Park.
Crossing the river after heavy rain had broken the bridge….
Dry river bed in Dogon… Before the rain…
Oh, if I had done nothing simply from laziness! Heavens, how I should have respected myself, then. I should have respected myself because I should at least have been capable of being lazy; there would at least have been one quality, as it were, positive in me, in which I could have believed myself. Question: What is he? Answer: A sluggard; how very pleasant it would have been to hear that of oneself! It would mean that I was positively defined, it would mean that there was something to say about me. "Sluggard"—why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career.