The Stronghold (thriller) invites the boys to his house where in a big worry and hurry he tells them the story about Inca civilization, the ruins, which according to some historians were built by Incas, but which, however, could not be erected by Incas given their level of technology. The artist also tells them a legend about a lost city called Paititi, shows them a blurred photo of some unknown ruins in selva and gives them a handwritten map supposed to lead to that place. After some deliberations the guys decide to go to Peru and look for the Inca’s stronghold. Gunnar Ivers
Vilcabamba, Peru the site where Tupac Amaru fled after the Spanish captured Vitcos. Bingham speculated in his book Lost City of the Incas that Machu Picchu was the lost city of Vilcapampa the Old, in part because Bingham only saw a small portion of Espíritu Pampa. It remained for Gene Savoy to discover the full extent of the site in 1964, and later evidence did confirm the site was indeed the old Vilcabamba. In the 1960s, the explorations and discoveries of Antonio Santander Casselli and Gene Savoy finally associated the "Espíritu Pampa" site with the legendary Vilcabamba. Their 1970 book "Antisuyo" brought