In the park's museum, you can see that under the grass, lies a stepped pyramid with various odd geometrical shapes at the top (circles and triangles). Also, all of these pyramids are located along the equator and point in the same direction along the equator. Scientist are still uncovering theories about these pyramids.
As well as pyramids, the park maintained one of the last herds of wild llamas (who are now mostly used as domestic animals in some more traditional rural areas. Still many communities have discovered that the horse is actually more powerful and beneficial for farm use than the llama.)
Another shot of the curious llamas.
As we approached one pyramid, we found some young llamas grazing the hillside.
The local dog (who followed us throughout the tour) became a source of curiosity to these young llamas. And what can I say is better than one llama sniffing a dog...
...but two llamas sniffing the dog!!
This strange sight made us look twice, maybe even three times and we came to the conclusion that this was a hybrid llama (part llama part horse!).
Onto our next weekend trip to the touristy town (but for a reason!) of Banos. This was our hotel, Blancos y Plantas.
We enjoyed our breakfast from the terrace with a beautiful view of the nearby waterfall.
I just had to chuckle and take a picture of this oddity, our bedside lamp.
The view of the town's waterfall minutes down the street from our hotel.
Actually, the waterfall fell right into a clothes-washing facility. Who needs high tech when you have this!!
As you can see, the pressure of the falling water continues through the pipes and gets divided to individual washing sinks.
The waterfall also proves to be a beautiful sight from the adjacent thermal baths (Piscina de la Virgen). The baths had a selection of 3 pools: "regular cold", "nice and warm" and "extremely hot". The later two were heated naturally from the ground and had a sulfuric colour (but no smell!) to them.
The town's church was splendid... and served as a cardinal point for us throughout our trip.
Inside the church, was a huge courtyard with trees.
Funny thing about this church is that it had neon lights around the ceramic sculptures of its saints.
Here is an area where people could light candles, stick them on this counter and pray.
On the second floor of the church, there was also a museum of religious paintings, artefacts, daily use items, and taxiderm'd animals like these caymens.
As well as the panther who is bloodily tearing apart a monkey, while a curious deer watches the scene. Hmmm, realistic, no?
We especially liked this cow head... we called it the "mad cow" because of its white googly eyes and bright teeth.
