Otuzco. These are some incan ruins near Cajamarca. The first time Shawn and I went we walked all the way there in the rain, and made it most of the way back opting for a taxi near the airport. Its prolly a good 5 mile walk or more from our apt. The hole you see in the side of the rock were to burry peoples remains. the bodies were left out for some time until the flesh and skin came off and then the bones were put in one of these little caverns and sealed with cement or something of the like. In Otuzco, the same as every tourist site we were bombarded with little kids that wanted to be our tour guides, or sing for us or sell us fossils, or just give them money. They are cute, but that doesnt make it hard to say no when there are 15 of them dancing around you. The picture of this girl, whom I actually met twice, was taken the second time I went to Otuzco when Shawn´s family came to visit. The rocks on the blanket in front of her are actually fossils that the local people find in the hills across from otuzco, pretty amazing that there are shells and starfish fossils definitly from the sea, Noah´s ark time i figure. How else do they get in to the middle of the Andes? Anyway I thought she was a beautiful girl, and she even remembered me from the first time we came. We had a lot of fun on our tours of the area around cajamarca.
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