We had a full day today. The day started at 8:00 am with a weaving demonstration. The woman that led the demonstration was hilarious, if you just understood a smidge of Spanish. It was actually interesting how they weave the cloth by hand, using natural dyes and even natural soap (a tuber that grows in the Andes). At 9:00 AM we were on the road to our first stop, Urubamba. We stopped by the market to see how the locals go “grocery” shopping. The market had a wonderful assortment of meat, dried beans and grains, medicinal herbs, and produce. The smell was surprisingly nice, given the fact that there was every type of meat just there in the open air. That is a little gross, given American sensibilities, but I was assured that the climate of
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