Sillustani

Alpaca...tasty tasty	Llama...starting to tell the difference	Alpaca and Llamas in front of a traditional house on the road to Sillustani	Traditional stone compound on the road to Sillustani
Each family lives in a walled enclosure with several huts	Traditional rural enclosure on the Altiplano en route to Sillustani	Atuncolla, Peru	Church of San Andres, Atuncolla, Peru
Iglesia San Andres de Atuncolla, Peru	Main plaza, Antuncolla, Peru	Municipalidad Distrital Atuncolla	Freestanding stone house near Atuncolla
Llamas grazing in front of a traditional enclosure	In Africa, I'd call it a kraal...here, choza	Cattle wading in the Lake Umayo below Sillustani	Lago Umayo by Sillustani
Alpaca	Sillustani	Parking area and village at Sillustani	Late afternoon at Sillustani
Lago Umayo, Sillustani	The plowed furroughs are called waru waru	Lago Umayo, Sillustani	Village at Sillustani
Sillustani is famous as a pre-Incan burial ground of the Colla people, Aymara	Chullpa, an ancient Aymara tomb	The Aymara worshiped their ancestors and built these stone Chullpas as their tombs	Aymara stonework differs from that of the Inca
Detail of a Chullpa at Sillustani	Marcos on top of a rock, Sillustani	Marcos, my knowledgable guide	Ruins of a Chullpa with only two layers remaining
Chullpa tomb, Sillustani	Marcos, Sillustani	Chullpa remains, Sillustani	Lago Umayo from the necropolis of Sillustani
Some Chullpas are barely piles of rock today	Pre-Incan burial ground at Sillustani	Sillustani	Sillustani
Long shadows, late afternoon	Chulpa Cuadrada - dating from the Inca period	Chulpa remains, Sillustani	Chulpa remains, Sillustani
Lago Umayo - 3890m	Sillustani	Chullpas were used to bury entire families	Marcos, Sillustani
Late afternoon sun behind a dry stone wall, Sillustani	Late afternoon sun behind a dry stone wall, Sillustani	Late afternoon sun behind a dry stone wall, Sillustani	One of the best preserved Chullpa, Sillustani
One of the best preserved Chullpa, Sillustani	One of the best preserved Chullpa, Sillustani	The largest chullpa are 12m tall	Chullpa, Sillustani - tombs of Colla nobility
Chullpa, Sillustani	Carving of a lizard on one of the chullpa of Sillustani	Peek through to the interior through an eastern-facing opening	Chullpa, Sillustani
Chullpa, Sillustani	Bolivian license plate from La Paz	Rough section of road along Lake Umayho	Friendly boy sitting in front of his family's home...we decided to stop...
I tried to pinpoint the house on Google Earth but couldn't...leaving Sillustani, it's only a couple of km on the right hand side	The family operates the home as a guesthouse	One of the rooms available for guests	The main enclosure of the home
The boy showing us traditional tools	Here, an tool to prepare the fields	Traditional home near Sillustani operating as a guest house	Samples of traditional foods
Griding grain	The kitchen	Guinea pig	The guinea pigs have their own little thatched house
I had guinea pigs as pets as a kid...couldn't see eating them	Guestroom	Arch leaving Acuncolla ont he Sillustani Road