Today I had an easy walking day. Nothing spectacularly, apart from the city itself. The tour guide was proud of his city and inca culture that he was part.
As all the tours in South America, they start in Plaza de Armas ( downtown where the army raise the flag every Sunday's). The flag is pretty similar to LGBT community, but the quechua people are pretty proud of it. Not the flag of Peru though....
So who are the quechua people anyway? According to the guide is the biggest indigenous population spread across 6 countries: Peru, Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina. They speak quachuan even today and the ladies are wearing a hat if they are married, like in the picture below.
They are the same dish with inca population, but as pharaons in Egypt they were gods same here, the leaders were inca (gods) and not part of the humble people.
This is on a main street, an old way of building without cement. The pieces of stone are huge and is amazing how they managed to bring them up here and joined them together. The snake is part of Pachamama culture, a sacred animal that belongs to earth.
Above is an example on the difference between the inca wall original building and the spanish conquistadors trying to match it :) I realised that I remembered much more than I thought I was capable of, maybe because I really listened :)
Here is our group in a patio (spanish outside living room) that is a mix of spanish and inca culture. The beautiful pottery that the family made was extremely expensive on all standards
I have no idea if I will every buy them as they don't fit my practical and minimalism world of view.
The tour ended in the fruit market, that is pretty much same all Peru. I just went for a coffee and a beer after and I catch the sunset as I was walking by to my hostel. Yes is one of the most touristic places in Peru, but nevertheless is breathtakingly.
Hugs,
Teodora