Day: 20 September 2008
South America
Visiting Venizio the Farmer
On the way back from, visiting the Chulpas, we stopped to visit the house of a man named Venizio who has a farm near Sullustani. This gave us an excellent insight into the life of the local people who scratch out a living on the Alto Planos (high plain). The farm houses here are constructed […]
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South America
Inca Burial Towers
After our visit to he floating islands, a few of us took an optional tour to Sillustani, about 40 kilometres to the west of La Paz. Here there are a number of Inca Relics dating back to the 1400’s. These burial towers, or Chulpas, were used for burying the Inca noble class. When an important […]
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