Tagged Ayni

We are just outside the Andean village of Chawaytiri—meaning Village of the Llama, or Eye of the Llama—that sits at 12,000 feet in the highlands, just 50 kilometres from Cusco in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.

While reading up on Peru and the Andean world, I remember my first view of the Quechua word “ayni.” In Peru, I learned its true meaning.