Chinchero Inca textile town

For today, we had booked a half day tour to Chinchero (Inca textile village), Moray (Inca agriculture laboratory) and Maras (salt fields). The tour cost is us /S 30 per person and began at 8:30 am. We had our breakfast at the hostel and arrived on time to catch our tour van.
The 1st stop was at the village of Chinchero about 1.5 hrs from Cusco. This village is one of the very few that has retained the techniques of spinning and weaving clothes from the Inca times. They still use the same tools, colors and fibers and everything is done manually by hand with no machines.
We stopped over at one of the artisan centers for the demonstration of the methodology.Leia mais