Ancient rock art - Cueva de las manos

We took the whole day for an organized trip to the Cueva de las manos - a large natural rock formation where ~12,000 years ago hunter-gatherers started to paint the rock. Their favorite painting object war negatives of their left hand - hence the name “Cave of hands”.

The guide first took us to the place where the earth’s minerals produce many different colors which the ancient humans used to produce the paint (mixed with water, blood).

Visiting the cave was great and it was fun to see the different styles, colors, and objects depicted. This site was declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1999 and luckily gets protection and conservation effort to preserve it for future generations.

In the evening, we only went to inquire about transportation options to Chile, visited the fiesta again, and... bought more cherries :-)Read more