Huayllafara – Farming in the Andes 2D/1N
Full day
Cusco, Peru
Huayllafara it’s a community located above the Sacred Valley at 3500 m.a.s.l. with 40 families, the main activity is agriculture on the way we see farms growing crops, all the technique they use are coming from Inkas and pre- Inkas, the farmers still believe in the natural gods to have good harvesting season, also they have a farm calendar where you will learn to see and understand the interesting good season for farming.
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1:
- 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 agriculture, all of that in their scale model, then we will make a tinqa (symbolic offer to mother earth with coca leaves and chica), immediately we make our Pachamanka traditional cook on the grown with hot stones where we are going to roasted, chicken, lam, potatoes, sweet potatoes, fava beans, while our food in cooking we get our rooms and the accommodations later we go back to have our Pachamanka lunch, in the afternoon we go to the farmland to involve in one of the agricultural activity. In the evening we have dinner then optional outdoor fire.
Day 2:
- We wake up around 07:00 one hour later we have breakfast, then we go for our hike for two and half hours one way through beautiful landscape to a beautiful look out to enjoy the view of the Sacred Valley of the Inkas, then we will hike back to the community and have lunch, later 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.
Included
- Private transportation round trip
- Local guide
- Professional tour guide English speaker
- Activities with locals.
- One night accomodation
- First day Lunch, dinner,
- Second day breakfast, lunch
Not included
- Airfare
- Transfer from/to the Airport
- Alcoholic Beverages
- First day breakfast
- Second day dinner
- Tips
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Price
$ 350.00
Per Person