Nearing Ollentaytambo: And the not so pretty sights / by Kylie Fuentes


Nope. It's not what you're thinking. I didn't kill the tour guide. And my travel companion is home safe now so it's fairly safe to say I didn't feed her to a puma either. This is what you find on the path less travelled...
It's some 600 year old mummies from an Incan human sacrifice burial site. Yep, they let you get that close. The only advise I was given? Maybe you shouldn't touch it, you might get a disease. No? Really?

Most likely these were virgin albino girls. That's apparently what the Inca loved to sacrifice. They were selected from youth, treated like royalty for years, her family was honoured and the girl was eventually smashed in the head with a sharp rock for a quick exit. Charming.