Travel Reference
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Sillustani
On the windswept Andean plain northwest of Puno is one of Peru's more unusual burial
sites. Dotting a chain of rolling hills that comprise the Lago Umayo peninsula are a series
of
chullpas
(funerary towers) that once held the remains of entire clans. The Sillustani
chullpas
(
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) have long since been pillaged for their artifacts, but the towers re-
main - some of them up to 12m tall - guarding the plain like monumental silent sentinels
from the past.
A Sillustani
chullpa
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