Bolivia
The mixture of two religious belief, Andean and Catholic, is carried proudly by the pilgrims in a place
where the prehispanic culture was regarded as "mystical".
From the lake you can see at the top of the summit the seven crosses representing the seven sorrows of
death of the Messiah. It’s a place so much visited by domestic pilgrims. It has become famous in recent
years among foreign tourists who usually visit at sunset to watch the spectacular sunsets on the lake.
Climb to the top has a distance of about five
minutes from the Plaza Sucre, located at an
altitude of 3966 m.s.n.m, a circumstance to
consider for those who may affect them altitude
sickness, the rise should be done slowly.
It is very common especially by domestic
pilgrims hire a Yatri (an Aymara priest), often hire
them to make ritual blessings (Ch'alla).
A ceremony is based on the act of irrigate the
land or other property with alcohol and symbolic
elements. Because even if the place is now a
place of pilgrimage of the Catholic religion, their
culture for centuries was a place where rites of
Andean religion were made. In the same place you
can find positions where they sell various typical
gifts and religious Andean and Catholics amulets.