Ancient drawings

The day after been in Leon we went to Juigalpa in Chontales to a the museum of Gregorio Aguilar Barea. This museum is divided into two parts, the first part consisted of the largest statuses in South America made by the natives thousands of years ago and the other part was an exhibition of deformed animals which had a fetus with just one eye place in the middle of it's forehead.

The next place we went to was El Parque de las Piedras Pintadas or the park of the painted rocks. At the park we walked up a hill going from archaeological site to archaeological site looking at ancient cravings on rocks. There was cravings every were you stepped. About every ten feet you walk you would see twenty by twenty foot wide rock with all kinds of carvings on them. Some of the carving were of animals to honer them.

Other of the carving were of people, some of shaman dancing and participating in rituals. This park still needs a lot of work, only a few sites have a roof over them to protect them from the elements and there are a lot of rocks with carvings to be found. The problem is that they don't have the money to build the roofs or to have archaeologist properly uncover the cravings. This is the second historical site they we had been to and could not be properly show because of lack of money. I feel if money could be gather to have these area fixed up for tourism Nicaragua would receive a lot of income as well as becoming very touristic and most important help conserve their history. It would be a disaster to hear that these carving made so long ago would not be there any more, proof of first human art on earth.

At one of the sites there was man made pool where we were told that the shaman told the tribe members that they had to take all the women's virginity and then she could shower in this pool and would get their virginity back for their husband.

At the top of the hill there was a great 360 view of the land around us which we were told that is full of these carvings.

During the walk there was all kinds of bugs, like ants, flies, misquotes, bees, etc. But the one that I have heard about and only seen on TV was the stick bug. So when we came upon one I just had to get a shot of it.