Friday, December 21, 2012
Chinchero Village, Peru (The Sacred Valley)
We awoke to the beautiful gardens and bird sounds on the hotel grounds.
Orange , papaya and pineapple juice were all fresh squeezed. Coffee was super strong. And what we thought would go squish (potatoes) went chew (chicken) so we stuck with eggs and toast and amazing juice.
We proceeded again through breath taking countryside to Chinchero Village for a fantastic weaving demonstrations where we learned about how they sheer llama wool, clean it, spin it into thread, dye it with natural plants and berries and seeds and dead parasites ( ewwwwww!). Then they showed us how they weave each thread together to make the beautiful patterns and designs. L and F both got alpaca slippers.
Before going to the airport we stopped in the most treasured churches in the Sacred Valley
-and the energy was very strong.
We looked at beautiful artwork of the indigenous people including the three major arc angels,
St. Michael (for protection and help)
St.Raphael (for fishing out what you want)
and St. Gabriel (for wealth). They had never heard of wings before so painted them as birds wings, some parrot wings. We then flew to Lima and returned to our ship in Callou.
Peru was AWESOME!
Safe Travels!
JKLM
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Next: Manta, Ecuador
leo and finn go to south america! 