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In America, Bolivia 2001, Highlight, Traveled places On  27/12/2001  No comments

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• Border Peru – Bolívia
• Laja – Tiahuanaco
• La Paz – Culture
• Bicycle Tour to Coroico
• Rurrenabaque and the Pampas
• Copacabana and Lake Titicaca
• Chacaltaya and Valle de la Luna
• Sucre
• Potosì
• Uyuni
• Salar de Uyuni tour to Chile
• Border Bolívia – Chile

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In America, Bolivia 2001 On  11/07/2001  One comment

I left at 9am to a tour in Tiahuanaco. In the way we stopped in the small city called Laja to visit the Baroque Mestizo style church. This was created to commemorate the victory of the Spaniard on the Incas. On the left side, there are Inca symbols as the condor, while on the right there are catholic symbols. The visit the Tiahuanaco starts in the local museum that shows indigenous objects from the region. We learned a little about the pre-Colombian cultures and went for a walk in the ruins.

Tiahuanaco was perhaps the most important culture in Bolivia. It was divided in 5 phases, the first it is believed it appeared 10 centuries before Christ, while that fifth it finished around 1200 DC. After this time the Incas arrived in the region and they took care of the temples.  Popular legends say that Viracocha (the greatest God, creator of the world) lived there...