Cultural Immersion Experience. Our overnight experience in the Peruvian village of our porters before our trek. We experienced helping harvest potatoes by hand and plowing the potato field. We were blessed to join our guides family for a mid-afternoon meal of potatoes roasted in a fire pit in the field. Dinner at the home of our head porter. Graced
by traditional Peruvian harp music played for us by his son in law while taught Peruvian dance by the children. Night spent in a Peruvian family's home and a traditional Peruvian breakfast of coca tea, Lima bean & cinnamon brewed drink (delicious, like chai tea), potatoes, roasted corn, salad.
OVERVIEW
Cultural Immersion Experience - EXPERIENCE true QUECHUAS LIFE
This unique tour will take you to the Peruvian highlands to get to know first-hand the agricultural practices and products of the area, which the Incas used to use, on which their survival relied, and which people still keep as part of their daily life. We will pick you up at your hotel and take you on a scenic route along which you will be able to appreciate the beautiful landscape surrounding Cusco and which constitutes the South Valley. Upon arrival to Tipon, we will explore its the inca site. We will then continue off the beaten path until we reach the Andean community of Patabamba.
This isolated village keeps ancient traditions alive in every aspect of their daily life, which includes clothes, weaving, agriculture, food, cooking, and more. Here you will have the opportunity to share the day with the locals and have them teach you, first-hand, about their habits and customs. You will learn about agricultural practices and techniques, and take part in the sowing or harvesting, depending on the season. You will discover new types of potatoes and learn about local produce, such as quinoa, kiwicha, Peruvian corn, native medical herbs etc etc. But most important of all, you will interact with the local people and work side by side with them, you will prepare a dish together and then share it together at the same table.
ITINERARY
Day 1:
We will pick you up from your hotel at 12 am, drive you in our private van towards the South Valley of the Incas, taking the direct route to Tipon. We stop at local market for explore. Then a 30 minute drive to the mirador of Choquepata to experience a classic view of the Tipon Inca site with crops dressing the mountains like carpet. Finally we arrive at your home stay at Patabamba where you can choose your activities from the following for your overnight homestay. travel to the porter’s remote community in the Peruvian Andes. Participate in typical farming activities and see how your porters live. Enjoy a typical Andean dinner. Then, dance to the lilt of the Andean flute as you celebrate the night before the trek.
Day 2:
Early in the morning with the birds’ chirping and the classic cold air of the Peruvian Andes, we wake up and get ourselves ready for our departure. We will first have a very typical and nutritious breakfast along with our Guide, Driver, Porters and Chef, then it will be time to say goodbye to everyone and start our so wanted adventure in the Peruvian Andes…the Inca Trail! or others treks.
INCLUDED
With Cultural Immersion Experience package you will receive:
INCLUIDED
- Private minibus from your hotel – Cultural Immersion Experience Community.
- Private transfer from Cultural Immersion Experience Community – Trek Starting Point (4 or 5 day Inca Trail)
- Family Homestay or Camping for 1 night at the Patabamba Community
- Scheduled Farming activity
- Get together with traditional music at the assigned porter host’s house.
- Visit to some Explore Projects (School and vegetable Garden)
- Meals: 1 dinner, 1 breakfast
- Professional Guide
NOT INCLUDED
- First day’s lunch
- Sleeping bag
- Single Tent supplement (in case traveler wants to sleep solo)
- tips
OPTIONAL SERVICES
Sleeping bag – 4 season – US$20.00 per person.
PRICE
Visit the most interesting and off the beaten track locations to experience the real Peru! Have a unique cultural adventure at local communities and take part in their everyday life.
- 1 passengers usd 250
- 2 passengers usd 100
- 3 passengers usd 80
- 4 passengers usd 80
- 5 passengers usd 80
- 6 passengers usd 80
- 7 passengers usd 80
- 8 passengers usd 80
WHY EXPLORE
Cultural Immersion Experience
Travel is about meeting the local people and experiencing different ways of life. That is why EXPLORE ADVENTURES PERU immerses you in the local communities. Visit the most interesting and off the beaten track locations to experience the real Peru! Have a unique cultural adventure at local communities, COMMUNITY STAY and CULTURAL IMMERSION before each trek and take part of our tours.
We are a 100% locally owned and operated company!
EXPLORE ADVENTURES PERU offers an assortment of adventurous treks and exciting tour packages in Peru, specially designed to appeal to most visitors' budgets that doesn't have a negative impact on the environment or adversely affect local communities. EXPLORE ADVENTURES PERU employees are local, Peruvian people. We work to invest in our own country and develop social work to offer our people a better lifestyle and provide opportunities to keep growing. This is the main difference between local companies and foreign companies and associated companies.
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