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82 reviews 93 travel blogs 309 photos Attraction Type:
Ancient ruins, Cemetery
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Life on a floating island
... ; However as we couldn’t do that until the next day as we got up too late we decided to do an afternoon tour to Sillustani, one of the archaeological sites in the area which was used by the pre-Incans and Incans as a burial site. The site was ...
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Lago Titicaca:Island Hopping @ Copacabana and Puno
... in Bolivia. The border crossing was stress-free and our driver even found us a cheap and nice hotel here in Puno, Peru. Puno is much bigger than Copa but also really nice and right on the shore of the Lake. We decided to take ...
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Towers of the dead
... many Peruvian tourist sites involve death. I don´t know why. They´re just down with that. Sillustani is a short drive from Puno and consists of giant burial towers that rise out of the rather desolate landscape and can be seen ...
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Sprachrundreise durch Peru
... ist gruen, da wir in der Regenzeit unterwegs sind. Wir haben aber jede Menge Sonne als wir die Inka-Grabtuerme in Sillustani besuchen. Diese sind auf einem Huegel gelegen und fast von einem See umschlossen. In die riesigen Grabtuerme haben die Inkas ...
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Cuy, Cakes and Inca Trail
... group playing their pipes and dancing in the tiny confines of the restaurant. Our final trip from Puno was to the funerary towers of Sillustani, nestled in a peaceful location in the mountains. Pre-Inca civilisations buried their dead in ...
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Days 3-10, Highlights of Ica to Puno
... mountains. At Puno we changed buses and were now accompanied by Ruven. We visited an area called Sillustani where there is a pre Incan cemetery dating back to 500AD. It was fascinating and Ruven was an excellent guide, ...
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Going native........after a fashion!
... he was warm but i find that very hard to believe! Anyway we spent the next couple of days acclimatising...we visited Sillustani the site of huge burial towers of a aymara speaking tribe and Chucuito a pretty little village with a huge ...
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Titicacasee
... ein Volk auf schwimmenden Schilfrohrinseln! Auf der Insel Taquile stricken alle Maenner und archaelogisch interessant sind die Ruinas de SILLUSTANI, fuer die wir uns heute nachmittag entschieden haben. Die 30minutige Fahrt mit einem Taxi (Busse gab es ...
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Taquile, Puno and Sillustani
... Sol, there was the deep blue Lake Titicaca with the immense mountains in the distance. Back in Puno I also visited the interesting structures of Sillustani, there were huge funeral towers called chullpas. These circular and square towers made back in ...
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On the shores of Lake Titicaca
... about an hour and a half's drive from Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca. On our way to Puno we visited the Necropolis of Sillustani, circular stone towers or Chullpas, where the Collas and then the Incas buried important people. The rustic ones were ...
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