Huayllafara – Farming in the Andes

We start from our hotel in the morning and we go by our transportation to Wayllafara Community (one and a half hours from Cusco) our local families will wait for us with very warm welcome playing their Pututus (sea shell trumpet)  announcing your arrival, then they will introduce themself, we will get hot tea, later we go to see and learn of agricultural andean calendar, the local guide will explain us the community itself  agricultural calendar, we will see the ancient agricultural artifacts, we will learn everything about cultivation, harvesting, and everything about it, all of that in their scale model, then we will make a tinqa (symbolic offer to mother earth with coca leaves and chica) later  are going to the farmland to involve in one of the agricultural activity. After the activity we go back to the local house to have lunch, then we learn the process and preparation of   chicha (fermented corn drink), a Sacred drink of energy for farmers. Also, we will see different  varieties  of corn. In the afternoon we go back home by our transportation.