reportage
THE FORGOTTEN AQUEDUCT We passed some embassies like the On the weekends, American one, but sadly we weren’t we’re always free from allowed to take pictures of it. We also volunteering work by VCS, found a shortcut, but we weren’t allowed to use it because it was the so we decided to go on a private property of the military, so we bit of adventure. Our good were forced to take the long route friend Chris, who also works around the hill. But in the end, we at VCS, recommended the finally arrived at the aqueduct, and aqueduct and agreed believe us; it was worth it. The scenery was to accompany us magnificent. You because he never “The scenery could see how went there was magnificent. much history there either. is in this beautiful You could see
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country. how much e began our trip by getting history there is The first thing some food and in this beautiful we did when we drinks from a local arrived there was to country.” grocery store close obviously, take some to our apartment. And pictures. After that, we then we went on our way to went on top of the aqueduct. It’s the aqueduct. It was a long, draining a bit narrow, but it’s walkable, so we walk. It was pretty tough because it were able to walk from one side to the was a scorcher, and Michelle quickly other. regretted wearing long jeans. Also, the roads didn’t always provide Michelle had the wonderful idea to pavements, so there were times when climb down the aqueduct, but we we had to walk on the street next to were able to talk her out of it. But then fast-going cars passing us by. So it was she decided to climb upwards from pretty dangerous from time to time. 28 - VOICES
the ground into a narrow hole in the aqueduct, where we also took some pictures of us. After visiting this stunning place, we followed the river until we were back at a road nearby a village where we saw a big sign of the KFC, and obviously, we were famished after the long walk, so we decided to eat there. After that, we started to walk back home. But this time, we used a different route. This route was much safer for pedestrians, so we recommend this route if you decide to visit the aqueduct. When we finally got home, we were all pretty tired. We were wondering how much we walked, so we looked it up. The distance surprised us because apparently, it was about 17 kilometers that we walked that day. But it was more than worth it. We hope this inspires locals here and tourists to visit it as well because once again, it is really worth it. Karl Jans Michelle Sapion
