![]() Inkas have always been keen on astronomy and followed carefully the movements of the sun to predict the time of the year suitable for cultivation. Emerita was excited about the position of the windows of the main building and wanted to sit in the center of its floor to experience how the sun was shining from a window on one side of the building upto the window on the other side. I went to see the place during one afternoon with Emerita and Anais. It is an area surrounded my mountains where you can find old Inka ruins and terraces which the Inkas used for cultivating the land. Probably the main attraction of Calca would be the Urco ruins that you can easily reach in a few minutes by a motobike from the center. Here are some photos taken in Calca village. Not to talk about tourist information – at least I haven’t seen any. I haven’t seen many toursits around often it seems that I’m the only one, especially from the Western countiries. The village itself is rather rustic and there are no big tourist attractions. What is typical to Calca, as well as to many other places in the Sacred Valley, is that it is surrounded by the mountains in all the directions. The majority of the people speak Quetchua as their mother tongue but Spanish is also widely spoken and it is the official language for example in the school education. This is the official information but I rather write about my own observations and experiences. The province is distributed in eight districts, one of which is Calca. ![]() Calca province is one of the thirteen provinces in the Cusco region in southern Peru. There isn’t much information over Calca available in the wikipedia. This posting is about the town of Calca in the Sacred Valley of the Inkas in Peru, where I have spent two weeks studying Andean Textile Art and Culture in the Apulaya Center for Andean Culture (see the previous posting).
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