March 5, 2014 Picked up at hotel and off to the women's coop weaving project, a Planterra sponsored effort by G Adventures, creating employment for the women of the village while all the men are off working as porters on Mach Picchu.
20 looms in the main building
Proud to be Peruvian
Housing has much improved since the project began
spinning by hand
wish I could sit like this
such beautiful colors, all natural
dyes ready to be boiled with the wool
This little tyke was stealing beans and eating them when mama was not looking
wool washed in that shampoo we were introduced to at the market yesterday
Chad volunteered to be the demo guy for the dyes
Pot boiling with cocoa leaves
from these flowers we get this color
from the eucalyptus we get this
Thank you for coming
Next to the animal sanctuary
The mighty condor
Four varieties of alpaca/llamas
The hairless dog
Then the ruins at Pisac where our battery died!
Disappoited because our lunch afterwards was at another Planterra project. You would not believe the food we were served by cooks trained by international chefs. G Adventures built this huge open air dining area to accommodate 7 of their groups, lovely gardens and top of the line cooking facility. After our six course meal of fancy spinach buns, hot corn soup poured over a square of goat cheese, tamales con pollo, birds nests with corn pate, trout on a bed of spiced rice, wonderful green salad with beets, chocolate brownie, fruit salad with passion fruit and cinnamon rice pudding. What a feast!
who would consider living in this terrain?
They worked with the natural lay of the land and built around it
Let's climb. Roger told me there were not too many steps. I think he was comparing it to Machu Picchu because there were lots of steps!
Those holes are burial sites of the upper class
designed to resemble the teeth of the puma
no mortar in their construction
town of Pisac
Looking down from our balcony at Inka Garden Hotel
Ollanytantambo
the socks I knit lastmonth for the hike
Let's go guys!
At last!
Off they go!
March 6, 2014
After a day in the Sacred Valley and a night at Ollanytantambo, the gang is off on the trail and I had a day in Maras, Moray and the Salt Mines and back to Cusco. Too many photos for this post so stay tuned for Sacred Valley, Part 2
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