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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

There Goes the Neighborhood

An excerpt From Atlas Obscura - 

THE FORMER WIÑAY WAYNA PUB

This is why we can't have nice things on the Incan Trail 


Despite its extremely remote location, the pub's downfall will sound familiar to anyone who's visited bars catering to masses of tourists. The fault didn't lay with the staff or locals as some have suggested (although Caruso was ultimately apprehended for tax evasion), but rather the irresponsible tourists themselves. Drunken backpackers were picking fights with each other, fighting over issues of national pride and using broken bottles as weapons, sometimes assaulting their own porters. As backpackers elected to party all night, they often slept through wake-up calls, thereby missing the entire reason they had, theoretically, visited the region. In the end, the government shut down the bar because, in the words of Edwar Pacheco, a guide who has led groups along the Inca Trail for seven years, "tourists were selling cocaine to each other.” Everyone agreed the "scene" had simply gotten out of hand, so it was time to put an end to Wiñay Wayna Pub.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-former-winay-wayna-pub?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura&utm_campaign=cb74bf7359-Newsletter_29_2_20162_26_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_62ba9246c0-cb74bf7359-59905913&ct=t(Newsletter_29_2_20162_26_2016)&mc_cid=cb74bf7359&mc_eid=866176a63f

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