The living culture tours comprise activities in which you interact with local people, or families, who still maintain ancestral customs in their daily lives.
The tours offered in this category include: the Lares weavers trek, Paucartambo festival, Paucartambo experiential tourism, Qoylloriti, Inti Rami, a visit to the Uros floating islands and many more.
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Peru: A wealth of folkloric traditions
Cusco, 2018: With its rich history rooted in a legacy combining pre-Hispanic traditions with ways of life that arrived through conquest and immigration, in addition to archaeological treasures like those of Cusco and Machu Picchu, Peru is rich in diverse folkloric expressions. Much of the music and dance performed today...
Inti Raymi: Cusco’s Inca Festival of the Sun –June 24th
In addition to the architectural vestiges of its great Inca history, the magnificent colonial-era structures built by the Spanish, Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail, Cusco is also renowned for its living culture. These indigenous traditions reach their greatest expression in Cusco’s many annual festivities. The most famous of these...
Qoylloriti – The Snow Star Festival
Taking place in a valley southeast of Cusco, each year this festivity attracts tens of thousands of devotees… Cusco, May 9th 2018: Held this year in late May, the festival of Qoylloriti is a celebration which brings together in the remote Sinakara Valley, watched over by the snow-covered sacred peak...