The Experienced-Based Tourism in Mullakas Misminay, will take you to know the parts of the Sacred Valley, a journey full of living culture and customs that were not lost with the passage of time. It will allow us to directly enter in contact with the whole community and be close to the way of life of the people, eat with them, work, share their beliefs, cook, and participate in all their daily activities. In this way, both parties, you and the people, learn the different cultures, one from the other. More than anything, it is learning from shared and lived experience.
The Community of Mullakas Misminay is located near the District of Maras, which has great landscapes and colorful fields of culture.
Over time, they were in charge of producing beautiful colored fabrics, with Andean designs, a heritage that they received from many past generations. Enjoy a wonderful and charming stay in the Sacred Valley, rest assured that it will have the best service and you will feel like the millenary culture captures you in its magic of the Andes.
The first day of the tour, we will pick you up at 07:00 in the morning from your hotel to take you to Maras, on route we will appreciate the diverse and impressive places that the Sacred Valley lodges. We will make a brief stop at the Raqchi viewpoint to be able to see the imposing snow- capped mountains of Chicon, Salkantay and Veronica.
Then, we will arrive to the village of Maras to continue on route to the Salineras, where we can contemplate its 3,000 wells of salt that were used in the Incas food until our days. Later, we will go to the circular farming terraces of Moray.
In this way, we will reach the community of Misminay where they will receive us in the middle of music and dance to take us to the small houses; they will be waiting for us with a delicious lunch. Finished the meal, they will guide us towards the viewpoint of the Waninmarca mountain, from here we will obtain fabulous views of Moray and the Sacred Valley. Arrival at night, we will have a family dinner with a nocturnal fire full of stories and traditional legends.
We will wake up early to enjoy a nutritious breakfast with products and Andean cereals of the area and thus direct ourselves to carry out agricultural activities such as plowing or harvesting in the fields, but before this a payment will be made to the Pachamama and the Apus in gratitude for the food that give us. Later, we will learn a little about the elaboration of the textile garments with the ancestral techniques and with the use of natural products that the nature gives us. Later we be able to cook a delicious lunch based on products of the area, we will participate in the elaboration of the Pachamanca, a delicious and representative dish of the Andean region. After delighting us with the exquisite dish prepared by the residents and carrying out the daily activities, in the afternoon we will be back to the city of Cusco and return to our hotel.
*This day we can chose the activities to do in the community, we have many options. Maximum altitude: 3,700 meters / 12,139 feet.
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