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Fifty miles north of La Paz, at the end of a very long and very bad dirt road, are the most famouse ruins in all Bolivia. This is Tiwanaku, the remains of a pre-Inca culture more than two thousand years old. To the ancient Inca, Tiwanaku was a mystical place of temples and gods. Pilgrims travedled long distances, crossing Titicaca's waters on the same kind of reed boats we saw yesterday to come to this place of worship. In the time before Christ, this was the religious center for the dominant empire in this part of the world.
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