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Until you see it yourself, you can hardly believe there can be something like a lake of asphalt. Yet, it does exist.
Once, a local king killed and ate a sacred hummingbird, and the punishment of the Great Spirit was severe: it covered the village of the tribe under asphalt. This legend is reinforced by all kinds of artefactd which have emerged over time. We saw trees pushing their branches through the asphalt and mysteriously emerging from the grey and seemingly impenetrable surface.
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