Sunday, June 27, 2010

PUNO—SILLUSTANI FUNERAL TOWERS

PUNO—SILLUSTANI  FUNERAL TOWERS
After coming back to Puno from The Floating Islands we decided to go on an optional tour to the Funeral towers at Sillustani . These were put up by the ancient Colla people who were warlike and buried their nobility in these high towers in the shape of a glass up to a height of 12metres. There were some villages built in the old ways on the way in and we stopped there coming out and they gave us snacks and sold us stuff. Cute pairs of stone bulls crowned the top of each house for good luck.