So I have again fallen far behind in my blog, so I hope I can do this entry justice. Once I had returned to my santuary in La Paz, I decided that I should do something besides climb, you know absorb some culture. So I decided to make the day trip to Tiahunaku, which is the most significant ruins in Bolivia, and is the site of the most important South American society, even more so than the Incas. This is because the Tiahunaku people lasted thousands of years, while the Incas only a few hundred, we just know more about the Incas. The site itself was interesting, in that it is still mostly unground and being excavated. This must be a very slow process as we were told it was descovered by an english chap I
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