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THE
ANDEAN ECO VILLAGE
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Our dream came through and we have completed this highlight,
which is now the best cultural product we have ever worked with our native
communities. It represents the different life styles of the High Plateau and the most important Andean legacies displayed in a sensitive and authentic manner.
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Your visit includes: the CHULLPAS mortuary towers of several periods, the Limachi brothers and their new exclusive museum including all the reed rafts expeditions of our century, reed boat builders and a full size reproduction of the RA II used by Thor Heyerdhal in his epic expedition across the Atlantic. The Eco Museum shows the original home of our natives and a later improvement of their life style. A handicraft village where local artisans make the "Chicha" (local drink made out of corn), ceramics, "Abarcas" (native sandals made of old tires), the Melon Hats of the Indian women and the wonderful masks used in their colorful "fiestas". You walk on an Inca trail to a stone village of local fishermen, the mud igloos & floating islands of the Urus Chipayas (a culture dating back to the last glacier period), as well as to the Takanas agricultural terraces and the famous Sukakollos (a man made micro climate system to optimize the harvests). You also see a sample of "Uyuni Salt Lake" and visualize the splendor of this huge sea of salt. A must for everybody. |
