Salta is full of colonial architecture and has a lovely plaza which is a great place to relax and people watch. While in Salta we climbed to Cerro San Bernado for fantastic views over Salta and the surrounding countryside. We visited the Museum de Arqueologia de Atla Montana (MAAM). It focuses on Inca culture and, in particular, the child sacrifices the Inca left on some of the Andes' highest peaks. In 1999 an expedition to Llullaillaco, a 6,739m volcano on the border with Chile, discovered three preserved Inca children. In Inca culture some children, from the upper classes, were sacrificed to please or appease their gods and ensure continued fertility of their people and the land. The oldest child on display was a girl about 15 years old considered to be a 'virgin of the sun'
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