Today on our way to Ollantaytambo we stopped at the Ccaccaccollo women’s weaving Community, this is one of the projects that G-Adventures supports. We were greeted with kind words of welcome and drums.
The ladies were twirling yarn all the time, they learn to twirl the yarn from 4 years old and they do it all day.
She went through all the differnt type od yarns they have. They wash the wool with sachaparacay to clean it. They also use this for their hair and alot of the older women still have black hair rather than grey.
Then they dye them with different plants, stones and fruits and get a range of colours.
The women work in the weaving community, and the men are mainly porters on the inka trail
80% of women especially in the Anders are overweight due to the amount of carbs they eat. However all the food is natural and therefore they are healthy and live way into their 90s
The kid in the hotel we were staying at was great entrainment, he was whipping us, dancing and just being a kid.
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