Participatory Programs in Sucre and Potosi

Countryside live, agriculture and mining
(5 Days, 4 Nights)

Day 1: Transfer in. City tour visiting Asur (Textile museum), and other places of interest in Sucre. Overnight in a local hotel.

Day 2: Departure to Hacienda Candelaria. Enjoy cooking the typical “ locro” at a stove where wood is still used. P.M. Enjoy the dance of the “Pujllay” at the Hacienda, where you will be able to participate as well as in the weaver’s demonstration. After some dancing and weaving, prepare the ingredients for making “Chicha” (Bolivian beer made out of fermented corn). Dinner and overnight at the hacienda. Star watching.

Day 3: After breakfast learn how to prepare “quinua” for lunch, then visit the storage rooms, orchards, private chapel and native museum of the farm. Basic Quechua lessons and some more cooking hints in the kitchen for those interested.
Departure to Tarabuco where you will prepare bread dough. Visit to the Indian market where you will use some of your “Quechua” and prove your bartering skills to trade some products in the market. Return to restaurant “ El Horno”, where you will bake the bread in an indigenous oven and have it warm with special lunch.
P.M. Return to Sucre. Dinner and fashion show with native textiles and ponchos.

Day 4: Breakfast and departure to Potosi where you will see all the mining process starting with a visit to the mines, as if you were a miner yourself. Lunch at an ancient mineral processing plant and after lunch, visit to the mint of Potosi where the process of mining and coin producing is completed. Return to Sucre. Dinner and overnight in Sucre.

Day 5: Breakfast and visit to the dinosaur footprints. Departure transfer

Textiles and Antiques
(5 Days, 4 Nights)

Day 1: City tour visiting Asur (textile museum) and other places of interest where you can see colonial furniture and other antiques. (Charcas museum).
Lunch at a garden restaurant where you can enjoy Sucre’s specialties.
Overnight in a local hotel.

Day 2: Visit to the dinosaur footprints and direct departure to Hacienda Candelaria, great in weaving tradition. After a countryside lunch enjoy the “Pujllay “ dance, a great display of color and tradition where you can participate with the natives.
After some dancing, meet your personalized teacher (a woman from the village) and collect your own material for your weaving lessons the day after.
Enjoy your afternoon learning the dying process with natural roots and plants and also using some artificial dyes.
Star watching. Lodgings at the Hacienda.

Day 3: After an Indian breakfast, mount your own loom combining the colors of wool that you dyed the previous day. All morning for you to learn some weaving steps on making Bolivian weavings of the best quality.
P.M. visit to a nearby village where you’ll see some weavers working at their homes while you taste the typical “mote con queso” (boiled corn with goat’s cheese). Return to the hacienda and have dinner with candlelight.

Day 4: (Sunday) Breakfast and one hour of basic Quechua lessons so you can do some bargaining at the market of Tarabuco. Visit to the typical Sunday market and return to our own special restaurant “El Horno” where you’ll enjoy baking some fresh bread in an indigenous oven for you to have with lunch.
Return to Sucre. Dinner at a colonial house with beautiful furniture and decoration as if going back on time. Textile exposition to see one of the best weavings collection in Bolivia.
Fashion show where you’ll appreciate a beautiful display of Bolivian ponchos. You can then be a model yourself and wear those ponchos and have your photo taken.

Day 5: Breakfast and transfer out.