Living Threads
Travels w/ Living Threads
The Last Incan Bridge and The Art of Village Ceremony
May 31-June 10, 2024
Once a year four Peruvian villages come together to build a bridge out of grass over the Apurimac gorge. It takes four days and connects their villages. So it has been for over a thousand years. This bridge, built in collaboration and ceremony among neighbors, is the last Incan bridge. We will be there to witness the making.
This 11-day tour is a journey to another Peru, one truly off the beaten track, beyond the guidebooks and cozy hotels. From straw bridge building to making offerings to the earth to a collective dance with flutes and llamas, this expedition takes us into the heartbeat of ancient, soulful community ceremonies. What does it feel like to gather with others to build, cook, or dance for the collective good? For rarefied moments we will immerse ourselves among people of community who’ve never forgotten such ways and feel the pull.
Come prepared to go deep and to be deeply moved.