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Our voluntary guides at one of the Inca sites around Copacabana. They spiced up the stories with some dinosaurs and human sacrifice.
Edel and our guide at the Horca del Inca site above Copacabana.
View over Copacabana and lake Titicaca from Horca del Inca.
Our guide at Horca del Inca. This kid knew what he was talking about, and he had seen us at the first site from up there and even corrected the other kids stories.
To bless the car get tons of flowers and alcohol all over it and then light some fire crackers underneath!
Lake Titicaca.
Edel at Isla del Sol.
The rock where the sun and the moon were created according to Inca mythology. Doesn't look like much now but used to be covered in gold and silver before the Spanish arrived.
Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca.
"Photo me and lama 3 bolivianos."
Reed boats on lake Titicaca.
The Sacsayhuaman ruins (Inca site on a hilltop above Cusco).
Guess which parts are Inca made and which are modern..
Cusco seen from Sacsayhuaman.
...and there's hardly a millimeter gap between the rocks..
"Pour lama blood here to find out how the weather will be in the future." Qenco near Sacsayhuaman.
Cusco plaza de armas.
View from the Ollantaytambo ruins.
View from Ollantaytambo.
The Ollantaytambo ruins. More massive blocks of stone fitted together with millimeter precision at the top of a difficult-to-drag-massive-boulders-to hilltop.
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