Patabamba Community

Itinerary

09:00 CISCO – PATABAMBA

• Our transport will pick you up at approximately 08:00 am from your accommodation so we can head to the beautiful community of Patabamba located between 3885 meters high, we will be able to appreciate throughout the tour beautiful landscapes, with fields that are typical of a warm area of the city of Cusco such as bean, potato, quinoa and oatmeal among others, beautiful small communities, we will make a brief stop at a small viewpoint of the Sacred Valley before reaching the community of Patabamba to appreciate the Sacred Valley.
• PATABAMBA: Arriving in the community we will head towards one of the houses of the inhabitants, where the inhabitants will show us their customs and where we will do our activities, we will be greeted with flowers and allow us to dress their ancestral costumes.

ACTIVITIES:

• PACHAMANCA: After the welcome we will prepare the delicious Pachamanca, a meal of ancient times cooked inside the land, it is held at parties or very important activities, we will participate with the inhabitants during this beautiful preparation and we will let it cook for about an hour while we perform another activity.
• CAMINATA A PUENTE INCA DE PATABAMBA: An Inca bridge that connects the community of Patabamba with the community in front of the mountain where they live, a bridge built with Inca techniques and that is renewed by the inhabitants of Patabamba every year, as we go down an ancient route that connects with the other community we will carry out the collection of medicinal plants and with other important uses.
• RECOLECTION OF PLANTS: we will perform a beautiful activity of collecting leaves, flowers and herbs (according to the season), this to be able to carry out the process of dyeing the clothes according to their ancestral knowledge.
• ALMOERZO: Arriving at our starting point we will open our oven (PACHAMANCA) to take out the products that were cooked inside the land, then we will pass to one of the houses of the inhabitants where we will have our lunch.
• TEXTILE: Finishing lunch, the villagers will teach us about dyeing through the use of plants (within which we collected), clays and minerals of the earth to give different colors and tones as well as the process of fixing and spinning that continue to our day, we can dye some T-shirts according to our tastes, also the ladies of the community will show us their products elaborated and dyed in Inca style. finishing the activities, we will have a farewell by our friends of the community between dance and songs

At the end of our activities, they will give us a beautiful farewell, then we will board our transport to return to our accommodation in the city of Cusco.