-Day 01
Arrival to Cajamarca city. Breakfast. Transfer to “baños del inca” (inca baths complex), where you can take a fresh and medicinal thermal bath in the extraordinary and healing hot waters.
Transfer to Chagmapampa - Encañada and welcome Transfer to Encañada town, to enjoy the beauty of the landscape and learn the guidelines, rules, and farmer's way of life. We continue the trip to Chagmapampa, where you will be welcomed by the andean family and get settled into your home. Here we will begin the great adventure of cultural interchange.
Lunch and Cultural Manifestations .After the lodging and first contacts, we take the “almuerzo de las 12” (noon lunch). Between the Andean people, workers and sheep breeders, lunch time is very important and it is done within a strong ritual context. The Andean men chew Cancha slowly and calmly, which combines potatoes and “rocoto” with Chochoca soup along with peeled barley (Andean culinary art). We sit in a circle around a low table, where the family shares the food with us.
The 7:00 pm dinner This is a time when the family talks about the tasks of the day, the profits, the problems and how they will to prepare for the next day. This meal will be useful to share their culture, their vision of the world, their different identity from the city, their hopes and dreams.
-Day 02
We will get up with the rooster's crow, while the Andean women prepare the typical breakfast, so abundant and healthy.
This breakfast teaches us some things about native customs, the origin of their food, the social behavior and their expectations in life. We’ll also talk about agricultural tasks, of the artisan workers and other activities that we will be able to take part in during the day, we will seed: potatoes, oca, beans, barley, and maize, for our meal and for feeding the animals; it will make us feel part of the artisan and communal works.
Andean Customs
We will be able to harvest some vegetables, and other products in "the tourist orchards" that soon will feed the next tourist group.
Each day we will try a different food; which could include fried cuy (guinea pig), green soup, or delicious "chicharrones" with potatoes and "huacatay" cream.
After lunch we will visit more of the beautiful places in the area and take some time to enjoy the fresh, pure air, appreciating the deep blue sky and the nature in great spiritual peace.
Appreciate the textile and artisan abilities
The tourist will be able to appreciate the textile, handicraft, and their architectonic abilities and to show also your own abilities in these arts. It will contribute a truly existential interchange, with new knowledge and new emotions.
Mystical Ritual
After the dinner we will be able to participate in a mystical Ritual to honor the sacred "Apus" (hills and mountains) Andean ancestral Gods, that have never been extinguished in the souls of the Andean people despite western religious influences. In these events the Andean people adapt and combine their own sacred visions with the western religion.