THE LEGEND OF THE INCA LAKE

Across the crystal waters of this lake, on certain full moon nights, one can hear mournful cries that stir its untroubled calm. It is perhaps an enchantment producing those strange lamentations.

Legend decrees it is the spirit of the Inca Illi Yunqui that haunts the watery tomb in which he buried his soul mate, the Princess Kora-llé, who had tragically fallen down a precipice during a royal mountain banquet (a nascu). The Inca, whose grief shook the mountain, believed with his poetic soul that no human grave would compare with the lake. Shrouded in white linen, her delicate corpse was lowered into the blue depths in the presence of the grief-stricken imperial court. From that moment, the waters were tinted with the emerald shade of the beautiful eyes that the heir of the sun could awaken no more.

Roaming this place, a breath of love and mystery is covered by the silent shroud of the snow.