Patabamba 2 Days

Itinerary

CUSCO – 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 community that will be the place where the inhabitants will show us their customs, receive us with flowers and allow us to dress their ancestral costumes while doing the activities, they will also show us our rooms where we can accommodate and leave our things.

ACTIVITIES:

FIRST DAY

• 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 residents 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 and we can choose colors according to our tastes, also the ladies of the community will show us their products elaborated and dyed with Inca style, finishing this activity we will have free time where we can rest or we can talk with our hosts about their way of life, beliefs and more.
• CENA Y FOGATA: At night we will have our delicious dinner in which the guide will explain the ingredients and way of life of the community, then we will have a beautiful bonfire in which the inhabitants will tell us stories of their ancestors about supernatural beings, beliefs and ancient gods, beliefs that they maintain until today while we share a little Pisco Sour provided by the agency, at the end we will go to our rooms to be able to spend the night.
• Meals: A, C
• Lodging: House of our hosts (house is adobe), rooms and mattresses improved to give better comfort to our visitors, toilet services are shared with hot water.

SECOND DAY

• Early in the morning around 7 am, we will have our breakfast with the host family to then enlist and be able to do our activities.
• WALK TO THE LAGUNA KORI COCHA: We will leave the community on a beautiful walk of approximately 2 hours to the lagoon and an hour of descent, we will enjoy a landscape beauty throughout the tour, when we reach the lagoon we can rest or fish, (we can also rent horses to climb to the lagoon (50 suns per person), then we will descend back to the community to be able to have lunch.
• LUNCH: Arriving at the house of our hosts we will have a delicious lunch with natural Andean products that they get from their orchards and sombers.
• WORK IN THE FIELD: After lunch we will have one last activity that will help in the field:

Depending on the season of visitation and the ripening of the field of cultivation one of the following activities can be carried out.

(a) Sowing corn and/or potatoes.

b) Use the yoke of oxen to plough the field by preparing it to sow.

(c) Harvest crops either maize and/or potatoes.

(d) Cut the cultivated grass and then feed the grasses.

• Meals: D, A

Finishing these beautiful cultural activities of the countryside we will return to the community where we will join to wait for our transport and have a nice farewell by the family that we host, then we will go to the city of the cisco (we will arrive between 4 to 4:30 pm) where the transport will leave us in their lodging so that they can rest until the next day.