Andean Colors Tickets and Tours

Llama & Alpaca Experience (Cusco Region): ANDEAN COLORS

Amazing lllama adventure and story

They coordinated an airport pick up with Juan Carlos and started the adventure. The llama hiking to a scenic view was amazing. Then we learned about how they clean and color the llama hair to make thread and then clothes. The 30+ women coop is an amazing group we could not help but support.

Machu Picchu Overnight Tour with Andean Weaving Experience

Peru!! What a beautiful country!!

This was one of the tours we were able to take during our stay in Peru. From our tour guide Franco that went above and beyond to the beautiful sceneries we were able to see. Thank you Franco for the endless amount of information that we left with. We will forever remember our time in Peru!!

Andean Cooking & Textile Weaving (Cusco Region): ANDEAN COLORS

Great food, beautiful fabrics, excited and engaged staff

Wonderful experience the whole way through. I'm a chef and my girlfriend makes clothing so this was a perfect package for us. The recipes you learn aren't complicated to learn, the fun is in getting to use ingredients you cant find elsewhere. Rocoto peppers, purple corn, and Chuño are a few things we got to enjoy. The coolest part of the cooking class for me was the environment you cook in. The range is double sided, 4 burners on one side and 4 on the other. As we were taking our cooking class, the women that ran the facility were cooking the exact same dishes right alongside us for their typical restaurant business. Getting to practice and make small-scale copies of the bubbling pots of Chicha Morada and braised chicken legs across from you, and share the space of deeply skilled women was a very special feeling. The food was great too, but that's up to your ability to follow directions. The weaving class was just as engaging but I wasn't as good at is as my girlfriend. The depths of the process you get to explore was so interesting. You don't get to hold onto the same piece of wool for timeliness sake, but you get to experience truly every step along the way. Meet the alpaca (if you arrive a bit early), take some dirtied fur and learn a specific method of stretching the fibers so bits of dirt and grass fall straight through, take your fur and stretch it into thin wisps which you knot on a spool and spin into fine threads. You'll then step to the side and with your group, select natural raw ingredients to process to soak balls of fur in that bubble in the background as you continue through your class. We got to grind seaweed to pastes, pop cactus-hugging insects into vibrant red dyes, and crush stone. This all culminates in you selecting a pre-started bracelet of many different color combinations, that you finish the weaving process of and take home as a souvenir. We also got to take home the soaked fibers we selected the colors of. Wonderful experience all the way through, deeply insightful and wonderfully presented. The focus of the business on uplifting and providing opportunities to single mothers of local communities is a cherry on top, which is a story they'll be all too happy to share with you.