City Tour!

I toured Cajamarca's tourist sites with some of our village bank women this weekend. The office of tourism invited us to participate in free guided city tours to celebrate World Tourism Day. The women had a fabulous time. Many of them had never been to any of Cajamarca's tourist sites, although they have lived here all their life. It was an honor for me to walk the historic sites with them and a joy to see their faces full of interest and surprise. They loved seeing pictures of how things were in the days of the Inca in the archeological musuem, and compare with their lives right now, as there are some similarities. Many of the women that went on the tour are also part of our literacy circles. They walked around with pencil and paper taking notes because their teachers are going to quiz them next week. A class field trip - a total new experience for them! Pictured below are is one of the groups I toured with this weekend; We are pictured in front of the "Rescue room" - the historic capture of the Inca king Atahualpa by the Spaniards that changed the face and course of Cajamarca and made it into the colonial city it is today.