About 80 km on the Bolivian side of the border I came across the recently discovered archeological excavations of the ruins of the Tiawanaku temple (there are several ways of spelling it like Tiahuanacu).
The temple dates back to about 50years BC which is well before the Inca´s were even thought of. The tribe of the Tiawanaku were dominant in the Peru, Bolivia and Northern Chile area. The temples are built with the same geometric form, alignment with the planets and seasons, in the same way as many others around the world. This is something that always fascinates me as to why they all did that yet had no connection with each other.
The Spanish removed the stones from the walls of the temple and used them to build several churches in the area so a lot of it is busy being reconstructed.
I spent so much time there that it became too late to make it La Paz on time so the rest of the day was spent strolling around Tiawanaku seeing how simple life still is. The one little shop still sells things out of big bags by the pound (actually kilo ). The evening was spent with a family dinner and sleeping at Mrs Grassi´s little family “hotel.”

Ricky