RAQCHI-CUSCO

The Raqchi town is located at the south of Cusco, 120 km exactly on the route to Puno city. This community is composed of eighty families which are dedicated on the agriculure, ceramics and recently to the rural tourism. This town has an important inca archaeological site to worship Kon Tici Viracocha Pachayachachic.
In this community the visitor will have the opportunity to be part of the payment to the mother earth as part of their cultural and religious ceremonies, as well to visit a inactive volcano called Kinsachata. In this place the ceramists get a special soil that give to their pieces resistance and a unique quality. You will see the process of manufacture of the ceramics and you can participate with them.
Actually they produce decoration pieces and pottery of excellent quality.