Journey Along the Inca Road

She has lived with Japan’s pre-Buddhist mountain ascetics, dodged rebels and dust storms in the Sudan, and hitchhiked through Cuba. Acclaimed author, filmmaker, photographer and adventurer Karin Muller could star in her own commercial about “the most interesting woman in the world” and it would be true.

On Saturday, March 16 at 2 p.m., Muller will be visiting Carlsbad City Library to screen a director’s cut of her documentary Along the Inca Road. Supported by a National Geographic grant, Karin spent seven months traveling along the historic Inca Highway down the spine of the Andes and along the coast of Chile. Her 3,200 mile journey resulted in the international television documentary series, Along the Inca Road, on National Geographic, a book published by the Adventure Press as well as articles and photos for National Geographic and other publications.

“I traveled to South America to try to find any living remnants of the ancient Inca Empire,” Muller recently recalled. “It wasn’t easy – there were helicopter crashes, land mines, and even an encounter with a cocaine lab. But what I found along the Inca Road made it all worthwhile. You see, the Inca were never really conquered. They live on in the culture and people of the Andes – in vicuna roundups and devil festivals, on the floating islands of Lake Titicaca and in the coca fields along the Death Highway.”

Join Carlsbad City Library for Along the Inca Road at the library’s Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium, 1775 Dove Lane. The event is free, thanks to the Carlsbad Library and Arts Foundation’s Robert H. Gartner Cultural Endowment Fund. Seating is limited and first come, first served. For more information, call 760-602-2012.