Panes caballos y wawas

Like the advertisement says at the bottom, these traditional breads are sold at the Saturday market I usually go to. Wawa means baby or small child in Quechua, the native language of the Cusco region. Quechua is a very onomatopoeic language, and obviously wawa is the sound that babies make. Caballo is a horse, with the implication that these breads symbolically make people more fertile.

COVID in Cusco: Week 33

October 31st 2020
Sunday, 25 October, 2020 226 days since Covid was first diagnosed in Cusco Tourism is back! After over seven months of being shut down, Machu Picchu will open in one week! Even better, for the first two weeks, it will be free! Unfortunately, all of the free tickets for Machu Picchu are already gone. What is left are free permits to hike the Inca Trail from KM104, which does take you t ... read more

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