Ventanillas de Otuzco

 Ventanillas de Otuzco means Windows of Otuzco. The Ventanillas de Otuzco is a place where people before the Incas, a long time ago, buried their dead. We know this because in the "windows", bones were found. The mountain was created by a volcano eruption, and the volcano is not active now. I got really scared about that. Around the Ventanillas de Otuzco are some cactuses, and since we are briefly studying cactuses in school, I thought I might take some pictures of those. I am using headlines, so just in case you don't want to see the cactus pictures, you can see the Ventanillas pictures, or, if you don't want to see the Ventanillas pictures, you can still see the cactus pictures.

Ventanillas de Otuzco

My family and me...wonder how I climbed that rock? There were lots of foot holds and ledges on the back. Also, my arms were strong enough to pull me up. And, Kai moved. Besides that, I have no idea how I got up there.

More of my family...

More family... (look at Lily. Lily is my little sister. Pose for the picture!)

I might have already gotten this one...

More windows... (my online school is having an art contest that I might enter, but I can't think of anything that can go with the theme: windows into our world. Maybe I can submit one of these pictures).

More windows... (I'm getting bored of windows, let's get a door!)

As you can see, some of the "windows" are deep, and some are not. Some don't seem like windows at all, they are so shallow. But some seem like a tree could grow from the bottom up, (if it had the right living conditions, which it doesn't. No light, soil, water, just rock.) and be twenty feet tall without seeing light.

Like this one, it's pretty deep. I had to zoom in a lot to get this picture.

 

Hey look! No more window pictures! Now it's time for...

Cactus pictures! (You're going to get bored of these too.)

Look at the inside of the cactus, I think it's kind of interesting. (Sorry, the camera didn't focus.)

Poky cactus...ow!

Pretty cactus flower.

Now we're done with those too. Up to...

Views!  

Can you see that crater, where they're probably mining? I found out that they mine gold, silver, copper, and other minerals near Cajamarca. I'll let you look at the view now.

Only one of those. Now time for...

Other! (Oh, so exciting, I get to look at the pictures categorized as other!!!)

We found this ditch, which they probably dug for water, cause it rains a lot here. It's above the Ventanillas, so it's probably so the Ventanillas don't get the effect of the erosion.

 There was this flower, I thought I'd put it on here because it looks like it's kissing you.

 This is the pathway you walk down to get away from the Ventanillas, and I thought it was pretty green.

There was this thing we wanted to take a picture of. Left to right: First, two windows so apart from the other ones, then, a few interesting trees, then, a low-quality house with a wall and a roof missing and plants growing on the top. It was really interesting,

 Now time for shopping!

We went souvenir shopping after our trip. There was this statue that looked really tall and really strained outside a tourist shop, so we took this picture with me and my big brother Kai.
This is the Inca king Atahualpa, and if you don't remember him, you can see my post The Ransom Room.

I bought a book holder. It was a right angled piece of stone. On the back, there was a picture of the Ventanillas de Otuzco, with the words across the top, and on the sides of the bottom there were tiny steps. There was a shallow pit for putting an eraser. Beside that, there were four pencil holders, two on each side! One of my goals of things to buy has been school supplies, another one has been souvenirs, and it was only siete soles! (seven suns, which is what they call their money.) Here, though, they bargain a lot, so I got it for six soles instead. What a good purchase!

There was also this hanging bridge. It was pretty cool, and really long. I loved it. For a connection, read the Geronimo Stilton series, I can't remember which book.

At the restaurant that we went to afterwards, (where the food was really good) there was a mini playground. One of the things there was see-saws. You can see more by the movie. 

(The movie is 11:15, so you might want to move your mouse every once and a while so your computer doesn't turn off. It turned off while I was making sure the movie was good.)