"Sacks-uh-wha-man" is pretty close, iirc it's originally an aymara name so it's a little "borderline impossible" to get the pronunciation 100% right if you're not a native speaker. Beautiful place, but nobody ever, EVER talks about the fucking slides and it drives me nuts.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I'd like to hear more about the fucking slides, if you're opening to telling me about them. They sound interesting.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

These things.

They get dismissed as a natural rock formation and somehow people claim that only in modern times have people considered them slides and it drives me nuts. They're so obviously slides, the biggest ones have been worn smooth by centuries of asses going down them (a geologist I met while down there was working on proving it was centuries of asses that had polished them), any child ever will go "fuck yeah I'm gonna go slide down that", and yet people constantly either ignore or dismiss them. Just argh.

[–] EbenezerScrew@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes. I want to know about the slides. I hope this isn't like some super secret and the second they brought it up they were disappeared.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

The slides are just ignored, the real super secret is all the tunnels at the site (the lizardpeople made them)