Field trip to Lamas

In addition to working with children and youth in the town of Sauce, our UNESCO-affiliated organization Estrella del Sur also hosts a weekly afternoon crafts club for citizens over 60.  Last Friday we took the regular attendees comprising twenty ladies to Lamas, an historic town founded way back in Peruvian history in 1658.  Although only 2 hours away many of the women had never been there and they all really enjoyed the day out.
Highlights included a visit to a museum and crafts gallery where the amiable owner Sra. Nancy encouraged her visitors to dress up in the local native costume.  A stop at Lamas' unlikely Italian castle built recently by a business magnate from Italy, a tour of our friend Lisa's beautiful bio-dynamic horticulture operation, a descent down to el barrio wayku where quechua is still spoken and lunch at el mirador which is an elevated viewpoint where we could look out over the town and the valley beyond.
The day was a great success and encourages us to plan for another outing in the future.