We spent three weeks in a remote rural area in the Andes above Huaraz, Peru. Every day we’d pass Quechua speaking women in their traditional colourful dress. Everyone had long plaits under tall, embroidered hats, wide bright skirts, woolly tights and colourful cardigans.
Usually the outfit is topped with a intricately embroidered, multi-coloured manta or shawl that’s used to keep warm or carry all sorts of things inside (including babies and animals).
Great shot! I love those bright dresses.
Thanks Akila. I felt so drab next to all these colourful women!
Love love love the colors of Latin America!
HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS!!!!! LOVE PEACE AND HARMONY XXXXXX
Happy New Year to you too Sabbi! I hope everything is going well.
Everything going fab! Have left CAN now. Off to do new things and have new adventures! Yepiee! Jaydev is doing an MA and am having my birthday party tomorrow! Going to plan some traveling… SO GLAD U ARE OUT THERE! Its very inspiring… always good to see people reaching for their dreams and actually doing it! Hugs xxx
Glad to hear it! I hope you get to travel too – I think everyone should at some point.
I believe that the houses are also painted in these strong colors? I see a blue house in the background
The blue building is the new school. The houses people live in are very simple and made from adobe so they are mud coloured.
#Erin: That makes sense, I thought is the local store when I first saw the picture. Now I noticed the books there..I love their dresses though