This is our last day in Cusco and for some the last day in South America so for today it was a glorified shopping trip to Pisac, a small community in the Inka Sacred Valley. The trip was about an hour and along the way we stopped to view the Peruvian Andes for the last time. The valley’s are very pastoral and the communities are almost ran like a co-op, people working and sharing their resources from farm equipment to the actual crop. We  stopped at a Llama and Alpaca farm where the local villages co-op their finished products . We made a purchase of a few things and, interestingly, it had to be paid in two  bills because the money was for two separate communities. Very cool!

Pisac has a very large market every Sunday where the indigenous people from the surrounding mountain communities come to buy and to sell. They are in their native dress, so you see real people as they are with or without the tourists.

The natives, and descendant of the Inka, are very small people, (which just adds to the mystery  of how they could move the big rocks), and very colorful. Today, without it being planned by our guide,  was a celebration that involved all the local communities and we were fortunate to witness a day of parades and festivities in the town square. I hope you enjoy the photos!