Community Tour Guamote

You will start the day with a visit of the educational center Inti Sisa in Guamote. Here they have a kindergarten and they teach sewing, computer and English. Every Sunday they also have a traditional Andean music course. The sewing teacher, computer teacher and English volunteer go and teach in the local community schools.

After that you will take off for a beautiful ride by car through the mountains and explain you some more about the history of this region and the Indigenous culture and traditions. You will make a stop at the primary school where English is being taught and where the kids will tell you about the daily school life (be ready to play some soccer or a pato-ganzo game). Next you will go to the house of a traditional weaver who will show you how they make their typical ponchos from the sheep and alpaca wool. At last you will visit an Indigenous family and see their authentic housing (choza) to get an idea about how people live in the mountains. Then you will continue the scenery drive back to Guamote. People who would like so, can walk back to Guamote (+/- 1,5 hour).