Allow the indigenous people to be the teachers and learn to weave, cook and carry out agricultural and construction work as they do in native Andean communities, giving value and motivation to the recuperation of these tasks, and creating work opportunities that assist in the sustainable development of these villages.

Your participation directly benefits the people with whom you work on daily tasks, and indirectly motivates them to conserve the environment, its native biodiversity of plants, foods, and wild fauna, as well as the recuperation of the traditional arts and techniques.  These will reinforce the communities’ identity and offer different alternatives to sustainable development.

  


PROGRAM: AMARU 3D/2N
TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE AND GASTRONOMY IN THE LAND OF THE INCAS.

Visit the community, “Amaru” (3400m) and complete agricultural tasks, using ancestral tools and be advised by the community members.  You will work cultivating potatoes in an area called, “The Potato Park,” so named because of the enormous variety of native germinates in this area.

Then learn to prepare chuño and moraya, stomping on the potatoes and letting the frost dehydrate them so that they can be used as food for at least one year, until they then disintegrate.  Enjoy a delicious, “Huatia,” prepared with the delicious potatoes that were cooked in a mud oven in the same place and time.

You will also have the opportunity to cook corn beer, toasted corn, traditional flour, mushroom stew and other fabulous typical stews from the region.  You will spend two nights in local huts, culminating a great experience.

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PROGRAM: LEARNING FROM MT AUSANGATE 5D/4N

 

We will go looking for the Apu’s children and learn about its arts and customs, like llama and alpaca breeding, and textiles produced with natural dyes and fibers.  We will take you to graze with the alpacas and then complete the “Chacco” or wool shearing.

Then we will spin the wool, dye it with natural dyes, complete the warping and finally we will weaving using their traditional styles.

We will prepare “chuño,” stomping on the potatoes and letting the frost on the Puna dehydrate them.

We will beautify the houses, renovating the rooves with straw (ichu grass), constructing adobes (mud bricks) and finally renovating the walls with clay colors.

During these days, we will visit the communities of Uppis and Pacchanta (4050 meters), and enjoy the medicinal baths.  We will also walk through the mountains and enjoy incredible landscapes

We will stay in rural lodgings and eat typical food from the region, prepared by the women in the community.

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PROGRAM: BIODIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURE IN PAROBAMBA 4D/3N


We will travel to Parobamba (3250 meters), a community four hours from Cusco that sits in the hills of the Mapacho River, a valley that borders the Manu National Park, thus the zone has a large biodiversity that the locals use to carry out traditional agriculture and environmental friendly practices

Collaborate in the cultivation of yacón, aguaymanto, black currant, hot pepper, seasonal fruits and native tubers.  Use the traditional agricultural materials like the foot plow and the hoe to work the “minca” system or communal cooperation.

We will descend into the river to collect medicinal and dyeing plants in order to then dye the wool that we will use to weave.  Finally, the local teachers will teach us their techniques.

We can collect bee honey and flower pollen.  The Mapacho River valley is a place to both connect with and help to conserve nature.                                               

We will stay in local lodging and our food will be prepared by local women.

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