Yanque and Colca valley

We stopped in a small town in the Colca valley. While there was some interesting history, all I could think was "tourist trap". The dance is Quechua, called Wipiti, where the male warriors dressed and danced like women to confuse the enemy. The Franciscans came and built a church atop a Quechua holy site and proselytized in Quechuan ... but the Incan religious leaders used a different language for worship entirely. The two religions coexisted and to some extent melded in the region. I also included some random Colca valley pictures and a couple of alpaca 🦙 we saw along the way.
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