AMARU – CUSCO

THE ART OF WEAVING

Amaru it’s a community located at 3800 m.a.s.l.  in the Sacred Valley of the Inka´s mountains above Pisaq, approximately 30 minutes driving from Pisaq and 0ne hour from Cusco, they are considered the last inka´s descendant families, their first language is quechua, their main activity its weaving textiles, and agriculture, the view of the mountain are amazing, it’s an unforgettable experience to visit them.

At this place you will develop the iconography of their textiles, the ancestral techniques and the message they pass down with their weaving, colors and arts of their weaving.

TOURS

AMARU COMMUNITY

ONE DAY TOUR

We leave from your hotel in the morning, on the way we can stop to take pictures  and  watch the beautiful landscape of the Sacred Valley of the Inkas covering an área of 1300 m2.

We visited the   archeological sites of Pisaq located in the upper part of the mountain. Our professional guide will explain about that place and show you one of the biggest cemetery of the Valley also you will see the magnificent terraces and buildings, after the tour we will  continue our drive to Amaru community   to visit the families and the local women will wait for us with warm welcome by native flowers, traditional music, immediately they will teach what kind of plants they use to cure different illness and to dye the wool, also we will observe how they make the thread, and the technique of weaving where they will show you each design with their meaning, around 13:00 hrs  we will go to the dinning room where we will enjoy the traditional lunch make by them (pachamanca: is a peruvian traditional dish baked with the aid of hot stones, it is generally made of lamb, chicken, pork, marinated in herbs and spices also we put potatoes, sweet potatoes, plantain) , etc. later we back home by car.    

TWO DAYS TOUR

PISAQ ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE  –  AMARU COMUNITY  –  HIKE

First day:

We leave from your hotel in the morning, on the way we can stop to take pictures  and  watch the beautiful landscape of the Sacred Valley of the Inkas covering an área of 1300 m2. We visited the   archeological sites of Pisaq located in the upper part of the mountain. Our professional guide will explain about that place and we will see the magnificent terraces and buildings also we are going to observe the biggest and oldest cemetery of Pisaq, after the tour we will  continue our drive to Amaru community  for 30 minutes to visit the local families and the women will wait for us with traditional music and small present, immediately we will enjoy our lunch make by them using local products such quinoa, potatoes, wild andean tomato, corn etc. After lunch we will get our rooms to spend the night, we can have couple hours  free for our accommodation, in the afternoon we are going to have our medicinal activity, where the local families will show us different plants they use to cure the illness, such as creams for twists, herbs for coldness, vaporized (baño maria) for headache, flu, altitude sickness, also we can join and try these medicinal plants; around 18:00 we have our dinner, and later we can make fire where one of the local woman will tell us traditional  histories in their own language translating for our professional guide.

Second Day:

We wake up around 7:00 am and one hour later we have our breakfast in our dinning room, then we will do the textil activity, we will do a short walk to collect and learn different plants; we will harvest some plants that we will use in our wool´s dye, then we will back to our place to shear the sheep to make our thread, we are going to wash our wool, dry and make our thread, then we are going to make our wool´s dye. We prepare our thread to start our weaving. Each one of us will  learn to make our own wool bracelet. Around noon we back to the dinning room to have lunch (pachamanca: is a peruvian traditional dish baked with the aid of hot stones, it is generally made of lamb, chicken, pork, marinated in herbs and spices also we put potatoes, sweet potatoes, plantain), after all amazing dish we take a little break, in the afternoon we will learn the technique of weaving and make our own design choosing our own colors, later the local women will show us their work where you can buy (optional) the textiles you like, in  the afternoon we will back to the your hotel  by our private transportation.

PRICE: 325 USD per person based on 02 people