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LIMA - CAJAMARCA - LIMA

DAY 1: LIMA
Meeting and assistance upon arrival at Lima International Airport. Transfer to your Hotel. If your flight arrives in the morning then remainder of the day at your leisure.

DAY 2: LIMA
Enjoy a lunch buffet at Mangos Café Restaurant located in the district of Miraflores.

DAY 3: LIMA - CAJAMARCA

Pick up from the hotel in Lima and transfer to the airport or bus station to take either the flight or bus to Cajamarca. Arrive to the city of Cajamarca. Reception and transfer to the hotel. Inca Baths. Transfer to “Baños del Inca” (Inca Baths Complex), where you can take a fresh and medicinal thermal bath in the extraordinary healing hot waters. Transfer to Namora. Welcome to the Sulluscocha Lagoon community. During our trip, we can enjoy the beauty of the landscape. Along this trip, we will also learn of the guidelines, rules and idiosyncrasies of the farmers in order to properly prepare and begin our coexistence with them for the next couple of days. Also along this route, we will stop by the town of Llacanora. Welcome to the Andean house! Reception by the farmers and moving in to the rooms where you will begin your grand adventure of finding and interchanging of culture. Lunch and Farming Chores. After the “settling in”, we take the “almuerzo de las 12” (noon lunch). Among the Andean people, workers and sheep breeders, lunch time is very important and it is within a strong ritual context. We sit around a legless table, in a circle, where the family shares the meal with us, eating while looking at each other. We could then participate directly in the seeding of vegetables and other products in “Las Huertas Turisticas” or “the Tourist Orchards”. Depending on the season, this will be harvested by later arriving group of tourists, which is to say, the tourists grow their own food. The 7:00 pm dinner. It's the moment where the family talks about the tasks of the day, the profits, the problems and what they have to prepare for the next day, all in front of a camp fire.

DAY 4: CAJAMARCA

Andean dawn: preparation of bread and farm chores. We will get up with crow of the roosters to begin gathering the eggs from the protesting hens. We also help the women in preparing the bread for a typical Andean breakfast. This breakfast is propitious for us to learn about the native customs, the origin of their food, and over the farm chores that they realized the day before. Ruins of Kollor and San Nicolas Lagoon. After breakfast, we will part for the Ruins of Kollor and San Nicolas Lagoon that is a part of the Namora district. Along this journey, we will pass small communities along the river basin and filling ourselves with the indescribable forces of the Andes; its impressive landscape, clear and clean water, dry and vibrant air. We next return to the farm where our host family will wait for us with a delicious lunch that will help us revitalize our energies! Later we help with the chores of the afternoon, round up the sheaves, close the corrals of the cattle, feed the Guinea Pigs, chickens and other chores that the local farmers do without stopping until finished. Fishing in the Sulluscocha Lagoon: We take a trip to the pretty lagoon to observe and participate in the amateur fishing of “la Carpa”. Dinner and Narration of Myths and Legends: Dinner time arrives and later we enjoy the stories, legends, myths and traditions, even life’s anecdotes and farmers’ jokes, all for a wonderful and ingenuous candor. Mystic Ritual for the thankfulness of the Apus and Mother Earth. After dinner, we will walk to the Apu or sacred mountain, “La Carshga”, which in Quechua means, rough. We listen to the noises of the night as we start a bon fire to begin the mystic ritual for the offerings of the sacred mountains and “la Pachamama” (mother earth) and ancestral Andean gods that couldn’t be extinguished from the souls of the Andean people in spite of the western worlds religion domination. These events help the Andean people adapt and combine their own sacred visions with the western religion. The time comes to “Chacchar” or to chew the sacred coca leaf that always is accompanied in this ritual of drinking the “cañazo”. Traditional INCA cigarettes are smoked and we recite some songs and auguries, all this makes us feel the nature and understand better the Andean cosmovision. We then retire for the night.

DAY 5: CAJAMARCA - LIMA

Breakfast. We eat a delicious breakfast with cachangas (Peruvian taco) and soup. We will then take a last walk around the host family’s farm, while helping with the morning chores. Lunch and Good Bye. This will be the last lunch we have with our host family. It will be something special. The Good Bye ceremony will allow us to realize all the love, fraternity and solidarity that we realized throughout this journey. Return to the City of Cajamarca. We return to the city of Cajamarca where we will have some time to do some shopping. Finally, at the indicated time, transfer to the bus station or airport for your trip back to the capital city of Lima. Arrival at Lima, reception by your guide in Lima. Transfer to your hotel, to have some well deserved rest or go exploring around. Lodging.

DAY 6: LIMA
At the appropriate time, pick up from the hotel and transfer to the airport to catch your flight back home bringing with you all the riches, cultural knowledge and experience learned from this trip.