We begin the day with a visit with baby llamas and a National Geographic lecture by Peter Frost on the Inca Empire. It is very informative. He accompanies on our tour/hike today.
We hike the Inca fortress of Ollantaytambo where the Inca's held off the Spanish for more than nine months. How by all that is holy did CJ make it to the top of the fortress at 9160 feet when he couldn't ski slopes at 6000 feet.
It is an incredible place know not so much for the siege, but the extraordinary Inca engineering, construction, and agriculture. The Inca were a very advanced civilization.
We have lunch at another private home, Casa Hacienda Huayoccari. This place part corn farm, art gallery, and restaurant.
We have a demonstration of their Peruvian Paso horses.
After the horse demonstration we turn our seats around and get a lecture and discussion on weaving by National Geographic grantee Nilda Callanaupa the founder of the Center for Traditional Textiles.
We purchase a runner for our dining table and Carol gets a luscious feeling scarf.
While waiting for the others to conclude their purchases, we play with the horses.
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