Bolivia, Tiwanaku

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From La Paz we visited Tiwanaku, the most important archeological site in Bolivia. The culture that built the city stems from 1600BC, long before the Incas came along. Unfortunately the Spanish destroyed most of the site and now it's mainly ruins, as with a lot of historical sites in South America. We did see some cool carved monoliths and elongated skulls though. This culture was one of many that used to put special hats on baby's heads to stretch their skulls. We were told this was to make them stand out from the crowd, but instead bought on headaches and ended up driving them crazy. They tired to cure these headaches by drilling holes in their heads to let out the evil spirits, funnily enough this killed them. [Tom]