this weekend, where a group travelled to the village of Rumira in the Urubamba valley to participate in a cultural exchange. The village is traditionally a weaving community but the men almost exclusively work as porters on the Inca Trail.

More people will include some of the lesser-known areas in their Peru holiday this year, according to the regional tourist authorities of Ayacucho, Junin and Ica. The three departments have combined their research findings and they are expecting nearly 40,000