Homestay Journey offer Peruvian cooking classes where you will learn how
to make an exquisite Ceviche, one of our most famous national dishes.
As an introduction to our cooking class, you will learn to make the
Peruvian national drink, the famous Pisco Sour.
Our cooking classes are distinguished by being the only experience that
is lived outside the city, in the Sacred Valley; it is a culinary adventure
that is lived on the edge of a lagoon, surrounded by nature and beautiful
landscapes.
Visit to local Market of the Urubamba
This local market is very colorful typical of the sacred valley, affords
a very colorful and unique experience. Here we will see local families selling
things such as fruits, vegetables, flowers and natural medicinal plants.
Visit local farm
It is a unique experience of knowing the medicinal plants, flowers,
organic vegetables, quinoa plant, and the guinea pig farm.
Salt mines of Maras
There are thousands of little plots filled with salty
mountain water that evaporates with the intense sunshine, making salt crystal
buds up to forming a thick layer that after a month is extracted by the local
families
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Tour Type: Culinary Adventure
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Good For: Those
with a sense of culinary adventure
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Difficulty:
Easy
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Climate:
Cold, sunny with wind in the months of April to November
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Humidity: Dry
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Rainy season:
December to March
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Pick up Time:
8: AM
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End time: 6:
PM
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Considerations:
This journey will take about full day
Cusco, Sacred Valley, local
market Urubamba, Cooking Class, local Farm, guinea pig farm, Salt mines
You can start from your hotel in Cusco, the Sacred
Valley or Ollantaytambo. Our homestay team will pick you up at your hotel, in a
private vehicle, to visit first to the local Urubamba market. Here we will see
local families selling things such as fruits, vegetables, flowers and natural
medicinal plants. Your guide will give your a tour of the market and you can
taste Peruvian fruits such as passion fruit, lucuma, and chirimoya. after that we will buy all the supplies for
our preparation of ceviche and pisco sour, then we will go to a beautiful
lagoon surrounded by a natural landscape
As an introduction to our cooking class, you will
learn to make the Peruvian national drink, the famous Pisco Sour. Learn the art
of making a Peruvian ceviche, raw fish marinated in lemon juice, chillies, and
cilantro.
After the ceviche classes we will visit a local farm,
where we will know different medicinal plants and learn from their great
healing properties, we will also see some quinoa plants, finally we will visit
a guinea pig farm, After that, we’ll continue with our ultimate visit to the
salt mines of Maras. There are thousands of little plots filled with salty
mountain water that evaporates with the intense sunshine, making salt crystal
buds up to forming a thick layer that after a month is extracted by the local
families. This practice dates back thousands of years and was passed on from
generation to generation. Return to hotel.
What you need to take:
A minimum group size would be 2 persons. The bigger
the group, the lower our cost per person: please, find our prices and discounts
below!