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City of Vilcabama
Items: 13
Secrets:
Kills: 29
At the start of this level, ready a weapon. Enter the next room and begin firing and jumping to the side to dodge the wolves. If Lara is standing in the middle of the room, the first wolf (1) will come from front left, the next two wolves attack (2, 3) behind and to the left, and one more wolf (4) from the front right. After dispatching the four wolves, head into the tunnel that is forward and to the right of the entrance. First order of business is to kill all the animals in this area before doing anything else. This part of the level is one large central room surrounded by a passage connects all the way around.

As Lara runs forward, there is one wolf (5) in the first room. Kill it and continue in a counterclockwise direction around the outer ring. As Lara exits the room there will be three bats (6, 7, 8) in the passage. Ahead Lara will see some grass. One wolf (9) will jump out at Lara as she approaches that corner. There is a small Medi Pack (1) in that corner hidden in the grass. As Lara heads around the corner and forward, there will be five more bats 1 (10, 11, 12, 13, 14). If Lara continues around, she will end up in the first room that she arrived in, so take the first available sharp left into the central room with the pool in the middle.

Along one wall, there is a wooden trough and two doorways. Ready the pistols and run into the doorway on the right if Lara is facing the trough, and immediately back flip out of that room. A bear (15) will be attacking, so kill it where Lara has space to dodge in the central room. Another good way to deal with the bear is to quickly run into the room and climb onto the stable roof right away. After the bear is dead, enter that room, and climb up on top of the stable and get a small Medi Pack (2). Drop down and return to the central room.
SECRET #1
Dive into the pool and swim forward to a intersection, and swim right. Follow the tunnel until Lara reaches a large underwater room. Swim forward and to the right where Lara will find a lever on the wall. Pull the lever which opens a trap door above her. Surface for air, and before exiting the water, swim back down. Swim diagonally away from the lever she just pulled toward the dark corner on the far side of the underwater room. There is a lever hidden behind a pillar there. Pull it to open a secret door elsewhere on this level, and return to the trap door, and have Lara pull herself out of the water up to SECRET #1. Get the small Medi Pack (3) and throw the switch on the wall. Exit this room back to the central room with the pool. Go to the pool and dive in again.
SECRET #2
This time, swim to intersection and turn left. Swim forward until Lara reaches another passage that has blue tiles and heads up. Swim up the passage, exit the pool and head through the secret door ahead and to the right that she opened earlier to get to SECRET #2. Inside, get some magnum clips (4) and a small Medi Pack (5). Exit this room, dive into the pool, and swim back to the central room and pull up out of the pool.
Facing away from the wooden trough, ahead and to the right is a switch, which opens a door. Enter the door, and climb up the stairs. Walk to the edge at the top, hop back, and do a running jump across to the other opening. Walk to the edge of the opening, and run forward and press jump. Lara should be able to jump across to the little ledge on the other side and get the large Medi Pack (6) that is in the alcove made out of skulls. If Lara misses the jump to the ledge, then pull the grey block out of the wall, climb up onto the block, then onto the ledge. Drop down, and push the grey block forward five or six times, depending on whether Lara pulled the block out. As soon as Lara enters the next room, ready the pistol and look up or hop back to kill a bat (16).
Silver Key &
Gold Idol
Run forward around the block and have Lara boost herself up. Forward and to the left is a silver key (7) and to the right is a gold idol (8). Get both of them, and go back to the grey block.

Climb up onto the grey block, and again up onto the wooden upper level. Immediately draw the pistols and reverse to kill two bats (17, 18) that just woke up.

Head forward and around to the left, and grab the large Medi Pack (9) that is hidden in the dark corner, then have Lara boost herself up into the opening and ready the pistol. Kill the two bats (19, 20) that come at her, then drop down to the floor. Head immediately back to the central room with the pool, then make a right down the passage that is flanked by the two stone idols.

At the end of this passage, use the silver key to open the door. Enter the doorway, but before Lara enters the room, perform the swan-dive-roll maneuver to avoid being hit by darts. Before Lara enters the next room, turn and face right, then ready the pistols and side jump left into the next room. This way, Lara will be facing the first wolf (21) that will attack her. Kill it quick, then reverse to see a second wolf (22) is coming to get her. After dispatching the second wolf, with weapon still in hand, proceed forward to kill three more wolves (23, 24, 25) that are in the next room. The first one is forward and to the right, the second one is coming from the left and the third is straight ahead.

After killing these wolves, head forward through the only open doorway, which is to the left. Run up the stairs and into the first room. Turn left and run up another flight of stairs and then walk to the edge of the stairs that ends in front of a ledge. Hop back, and do a running jump onto the ledge. Walk to the corner of the ledge and aim a running jump to the next ledge to a doorway to the left. Head into the doorway, and up the next flight of stairs drawing the pistols. As Lara emerges onto a higher ledge, there will be a bat (26) for her to shoot at. Do a running jump across the ledge, and continue up another flight of stairs, and draw the pistols again as Lara enters the room at the top. Kill the bat (27) that's waiting there for her.

Grab the small Medi Pack (10) in the corner, then turn around and pull the switch to open the right door of the three she saw earlier. Exit the room and do a safety drop on the left side of the ledge. Drop down on to the stone ledge and grab the shotgun shells (11), then do another safety drop down onto the red roof of the structure below. Underneath the stone overhang is another small Medi Pack (12) for Lara to pick up. Then drop down to the floor and enter the door on the right side.

Head up a short flight of stairs into another room with a pool. As soon as Lara enters the room, turn right and head up the stairs. At the top of the stairs, hop back so that Lara's back is to the wall and she are facing a low ledge a head of her. Do a running jump and grab the ledge and have her pull herself up.

At this point there are two ways Lara can proceed. But the longer one is better, and the reason will become clear in a second. Step onto the broken floor tile that is underneath the ledge ahead of Lara, then step back off of it before it falls, then use the walk key to put Lara in the correct position to grab the next ledge without walking onto the broken tile or jumping up and down repeatedly. Have Lara pull herself up to the next ledge, turn around and grab the next ledge and have her pull herself up. Do a running jump to the next ledge, and a standing jump to the next one. Line Lara up for the next running jump onto the platform with the doorway, and draw the pistols. As soon as Lara lands on that ledge, a bat (28) will appear, so kill it. The short way would be to run across from that first ledge to the ledge directly opposite to it. The result is that Lara ends up pulling herself up to that final platform while the bat comes and bites her repeatedly.

Enter the doorway, run up the stairs, and throw the switch that opens the middle door. Exit the room, and do a safety drop on the right side of the platform so that Lara lands on the stone overhang. Then drop down to the red roof and then the floor. Then enter the middle door.

Don't be in a rush, because there are three swinging blades here. Walk up to each blade until it starts swinging, and then time Lara's runs past the each of the three blades until she is clear of them. At the end of the bladed passage, is a gate with a bear behind it and a switch. Throw the switch and the ground drops out from underneath Lara, dropping her into another pool of water. Swim forward, but do not surface, instead swim through a small tunnel on the right. Surface, then exit the water through some stairs, and at the top of the stairs, throw the switch that is there to open the gates.

Go to the ledge that opens to the room with the bear. With a little patience, Lara can kill the bear (29) from up here. After the bear is dead, she can safety drop to the floor or dive into the water. Run around to the area that is to the left side of door with the image of the gold idol, where Lara will find some stairs up.
SECRET #3
Climb the stairs. At the top of the stairs, there is a switch that stops the swinging blades, and apparently resets them for the next unsuspecting victim, and a small passageway diagonally opposite to the switch, on the left if Lara is facing away from the switch. Enter the passage and do two safety drops down into SECRET #3, where Lara can grab some Uzi clips (13). Climb back out of this room, and back down to the room that once had the bear, where
Lara can use the gold idol in the receptacle that is to the right of the stone door to open it and exit this level.

Summary
Pickups
6 Small Medi Packs
2 Large Medi Packs

1 Magnum Clips
1 Shotgun Shells
1 Uzi Clips

1 Silver Key
1 Gold Idol

13 Total
Kills
16 bats
11 wolves
2 bear

29 Total

Footnotes:
  1. I've heard some people report that there are only three bats here [including myself at one point] but I have checked and indeed there are five bats. Perhaps there are more bats after the second time through the game?