INTI RAMI FESTIVALi


This is my forth visit to the Inti Rami Festival and it never ceases to amaze me. For the festival of the Sun, people made prior arrangements for the ceremony and when the Inca and his followers entered the temple, all the people toasted with chicha or a drink speciallgiven a tyy prepared for this ocassion. Here is a small piece out of the programe.
“Mighty sun! Our only father! Source of warmth! Fountain of happiness, I salute you with joy and I venerate you on this, your great day God of Day! Burning Sun! Now beloved people watching the festival of the Sun God. Now beloved people of the sacred city of Cusco, let us march together to Haukaypata to venerate the sun god and all the deities who protect us and then let us go up to the towers of Sacsayhuaman. There we will know the divine will of our great and almighty father, Let us go with hope and faith.”

This was another incredible visit to Cusco and the Inti Rami Fesitval.
Tomorrow we begin another chapter of our amazing journey through Peru to Posada Amazonas Adios from Lyn

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