The past two days were in Evora. Why anyone would want to ride their bike for 3 hours, in the rain, up washboard dirt roads just to see a pile of rocks is strange. These rocks were set in a circle 7000 years ago at the begining of the Neolithic period. There are three monolith sites in Evora and they all lie in the middle of cork groves. On the way there, a shepherd sang to his flock, appearantly herding sheep dates back to the time of the monoliths and continues today. The locals say the site was used for music and dancing rituals of a cult, which to me sounds more fun than attending the church of let’s hang dead bodies up and let them decay. The Chapela dos Ossos is made of the bones of over 5000 people, dug up from evora.  You can see (photo right) there are the decaying bodies of a woman and a child hanging on the wall.