{"id":4646,"date":"2014-02-09T15:58:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T19:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2016-02-15T22:12:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T02:12:22","slug":"qilqata-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2014\/02\/09\/qilqata-chapel\/","title":{"rendered":"Qilqata Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"_MG_9324\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Back on the Patacamaya-Tambo Quemado road, you arrive at the Qilqata Chapel (sometimes Kelcata)\u00a0only about seven miles from the turnoff to Curahuara de Carangas. \u00a0The chapel is only a third of a mile off the road and is plainly visible on your left. Qilqata is a cute little chapel with a walled courtyard and one bell tower. \u00a0It is one of the 11 chapels restored\/preserved with funding from the U.S. Embassy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Interior<\/a>

Interior of the chapel, before and after restoration<\/p><\/div>\n

I just realized that I don’t have any really good photos of the chapel after restoration. \u00a0I’ll put up a photo someone else took, but you’ll have to overlook the lens distortion that has the chapel, and especially the bell tower, almost falling over backwards.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_8128\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Although a map hardly seems necessary given the simplicity of the trip, here’s a small, simple map that give an idea of where things are:<\/p>\n

\"Kellkata\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Qilqata was the site of the Wilancha<\/a>, the spectacular Aymara ceremony for blessing the work that was done to restore all these chapels.\u00a0 The post of the Wilancha also contains a number of photos of the chapel and the area around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back on the Patacamaya-Tambo Quemado road, you arrive at the Qilqata Chapel (sometimes Kelcata)\u00a0only about seven miles from the turnoff to Curahuara de Carangas. \u00a0The chapel is only a third of a mile off the road and is plainly visible on your left. Qilqata is a cute little chapel with a walled courtyard and one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,92,102,61,60,100,57,107,91,59],"tags":[190,187,191,172,171,168,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4909,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions\/4909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}