Lima: Bizarre Tour in Gamarra (Witches Market) – Lima, Peru
EXPERIENCE
Our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel and will take you around the commercial city of Gamarra which is located very close to the first Pueblos Jóvenes (Shanty Towns). There well go to the highest building of the place to have a panoramic view of all Lima city and the vast territory that Gamarra occupies, which is going to be great to get an introduction.
After that, well take you through a walking tour around the streets of Gamarra, you’ll have the opportunity to try some local snacks and typical street food, then we go towards the witches market.
Snakes, lizards and other dissected animals are used as alternative medicine. This became part of the popular culture of locals since Andean people arrived.
On the other hand, we have a variety of aromatic herbs which are used by shamans to make ancestral rituals that invoke good luck and call upon money, wealth, and love.
The black magic is also part of the performed rituals by Shamans in Gamarra, even though we are not participants of this, we consider it is important to take you and take a look at it!
If possible, you can be part of a unique experience, visiting the wise old woman from the andes who have the ability to read your future through the coca leafs.
To finish with a true local experience, we will take the public train on the way back to your accomodation.
HIGHLIGHTS
A sight to seeif you enjoy lots of action and vibrant streets filled of activity
Dare to explore the bizarre Lima in a different way!
Guaranteed to give you a bizarre, yet curious shopping experience.
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