Highlights:
El Fuerte Ruins
Lowlights:
Disgusting coffee at a
market in Samaipata, it tasted like dirt.
Got ripped off on a taxi
ride to Mirianna by a women who offered to help us, got charged a taxi of 10
boliviano each where the whole trip should have cost 7 for all 3 of us.
Hostel attendant not having
any time to explain directions while I was trying to speak to him in broken
Spanish. He was very rude and impatient.
Places:
El Fuerte Ruins: is an
archaeological site and UNESCO World Heritage Site. it is generally considered
a pre-Columbian religious site, built by the Chané people, a
pre-Inca culture of Arawak origin There are also ruins of an Inca
city built near the temple; the city was built during the Inca expansion to the
southeast
People:
Eugenia: Argentinean from Buenos
Aires, owned a guest house, had to pay R250 at customs due to not having her
immigration slip, a very friendly women who did the El Fuerte tour with us, we
also had supper with her at an Italian restaurant,
