Intern from Patacancha Leads Tour
By Vivian Smith, Sustainable Tourism Coordinator This year, Awamaki was excited to host Felicitas, a young woman from the weaving village of Patacancha, as our first Peruvian intern. In April, she led her first Awamaki tour to the village. This was the first Quechua Community Visit–Awamaki’s most popular tour–led by a woman from the community. Felicitas’s mother is a member of the Songuillay cooperative in Patacancha. She led the tour in Spanish, while our U.S. intern Caleigh helped by communicating key information in English when necessary. Felicitas is studying to be a tourism guide at Instituto La Salle in...