Discover the Ancestral Weavings

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COLOMBIA, A CULTURAL ADVENTURE

$1,202

COLONIAL CHARM, CRAFTS, AND TRADITIONS

Day 1 On the afternoon of your arrival in Popayán, you will get to know the white and colonial city through a city tour. Rest and lodging.

Day 2 Breakfast, land transfer in private transport Popayán – Silvia, meeting at the main park with your local guide for a tour of the town, then we go to the Indigenous Reserve of Guambia, there in the house of a Misak artisan you will learn some secrets of the family, you will take pure and renewed air next to the river, a guided or personal meditation, as you prefer. Then we will learn about the history of the Misak origin: a story about their cosmovision and their relationship with Nature. We will take some time to enjoy a delicious lunch with local products. In the afternoon we return to the Misak artisan workshop to see a sample of the weaving production chain: processes with the sheep, shearing (fleece), washing, drying, weaving, spinning (use), skein, weaving and the process of making a backpack, weaving the backpack with a crochet needle and how to make the girth on a vertical loom. Return to Popayán by private transfer and lodging.

Day 3 Breakfast, free day and return to the city of origin.

Enjoy Popayán and Silvia in Cauca!

Day 1. Transfer Popayán Guillermo León Valencia Airport – Selected Hotel. As long as your flight arrival time allows, in the afternoon you will meet your local guide at the hotel reception to start your city tour of the white and colonial city. Rest and lodging.

Day 2. Breakfast, land transfer in private transport Popayán – Silvia, meeting at the main park with your local guide for a tour of the municipality, then we go to the house of the artisan, in the Indigenous Reserve of Guambia vereda la Tapias, where you will learn some secrets of the family, and take fresh air and renewed next to the river a guided or personal meditation, as you prefer. Then we will learn about the history of the Misak origin: a story about their cosmovision and their relationship with Nature. We will take some time to enjoy a delicious lunch with local products. In the afternoon we return to the Misak artisan’s workshop to see a sample of the weaving production chain: processes with the sheep, shearing (fleece), washing, drying, weaving, spinning (use), skein, weaving and the process of making a backpack, weaving the backpack with a crochet needle and how to make the girth on a vertical loom. Return to Popayán by private transfer and accommodation.

Day 3. Breakfast at leisure and return to the city of origin