El Inca and The Inca Burial Caves

Inside the Inca Burial Caves

Entrance to Inca Burial Site

Inca Artifacts

Tunnels to Inca Burial Vaults

Indiginas chicas who took us to the burial site

The Indiginas farmer's family in El Inca

Inca Artifact

Chicas with Sambos. Their gift of thanks to us

Dead Chickens, an offering to San Pedro in Mariano

Mariano Chicas

San Pedro Festival Horse in Mariano

Miguel con Indiginas Mujuere

The Party Girls of Mariano

Doing shots of local firewater (200 proof) in Mariano

The Millstones

Dos Chicas in Mariano

Raging bulls

Waterfall near Mariano

Yup, that's Miguelito

Todayʼs Adventure: July 1, 2012
Today we drove up to a mountainous area called El Inca to explore an ancient Inca burial site which was located on a hillside on a local farm. The photos show the entrance to the underground burial caverns. Two local indiginas girls took us to the entrance to the caves which were strewn with broken Inca pots. The opening to the burial caves was very small so we had to crawl on our stomachs to enter the site. Once inside we let our eyes adjust to the darkness. The burial caves are quite extensive but due to time constraints we only crawled down about 15 feet or so. I couldnʼt believe such an important site was located on a humble farm with no restrictions at all.
After our exploration we headed to another mountain village called Mariano Acosto which was in the middle of a festival called San Pedro. We danced for awhile with the local folks then headed to a 100 year old mill just outside of Mariano. After a brief exploration of the mill we started out 10 mile trek over treacherous mountain roads back to Pimampiro.
Every day here is such an amazing adventure with such incredible vistas and interesting people.
Buenos Noches mis amigos!!