Our school took a field trip to an alpaca farm outside Cusco. It´s a collective of people from all around the country who do traditional weaving using alpaca, vincuna and llama wool, using only natural dyes. There were many alpacas, llamas and vincunas; I don´t remember the differences in the three. You can go in the pens and pet the animals - if they´ll let you. I did get to see a couple of them spit, one very close to me, but not close enough to get wet, thankfully! Some of them looked like really big sheepdogs. I took a lot of photos and a movie that I can´t wait to share. The weavings were available to buy, but they were very expensive and not my style, though I did buy a hat/scarf combo.
The next night I went to dinner with some other people in my school and almost got the alpaca steak, but just wasn´t hungry enough for the huge meal. At least it comes in steak form.
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