Quero's Andean Community

Q'eros is not a place you'll find in a regular guide book. It is the home of the Q'eros people, believed to be the last remaining blood line of the Incas. They live in isolated mountaintops in the Andes, still speak the pure Qechua language and have had little contact with either the church or the state in the last five hundred years. They here fore have lived in a very traditional way for hundreds of years, nearly self sufficient, growing potatoes at 3350 meters and herding alpacas and lamas at 4300 meters.
They employ the same agriculture methods, play the same panpipes and flutes, and weave cloth using the same patterns as described by the chroniclers of the 16th century Spaniards.
The Q'eros people live in 6 different annexes, villages with each approximately 30 up to 35 houses. Hatun Q’eros (Hatun= big) is the main village and the biggest of the 6 villages.
The Q’eros nation communities are still keeping the Andean religion customs and traditions from the Inca ancestors, making rites and Ceremonies. The Incas’ spiritual and healing practices were transmitted orally. It persists in the Peruvian Andes because it is the only South American country where the shamanic practices still thrive on a large scale.
On our 4 day tour to Q’eros we will be immersed in the culture and way of life of these medicine people. The leaders of the villages are all shamans, and we will be introduced to their ancient ceremonies accompanied by a shaman himself.