The Tuni community, Aymara, lives in the heart
of the wonderful royal cordillera, at an altitude of
4400m, in almost total self-sufficiency because of the rugged terrain.
This people mainly
lives from the labor of the land and breeding. From recently, a gradual opening
up to the communitarian tourism allowed to diversify the available resources.
A weaving
cooperative has been formed in order to share the ancestral art the Tuni people
achieved to get back thanks to an Asur program. Another small museum has been
built in order to present traditional medicine from the region and plants they
use.
It is possible to share the daily life
of this people by sleeping in an inhabitant house, subject to a contribution
for the domestic work or by helping in the fields with the family.
What a better way to meet this Pre-Columbian people, one of the
oldest of the continent!