Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, made using traditional weaving techniques to literally string a crossing together ...

Peruvians rebuilt an ancient Inca bridge by weaving a new one. The 500-year-old bridge was rebuilt using traditional weaving techniques. It's used to connect communities divided by a major river ...

I’m gazing out the window as our van rumbles along winding dirt roads, climbing higher and higher into the Andes, past rock-strewn ancient Inca ruins, splashing waterfalls and roaring rivers.… ...

Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass.

But as fine as the weaving is, I still covet the sort of weaving that was made for Inca emperors. A weaving made with vicuña wool. I locate Callañaupa and blurt out my question.

Pacchanta's Maria Merma Gonzalo practices weaving techniques that have changed little in 500 years. Courtesy Andrea M. Heckman In the shadow of the 20,800-foot snow-clad peak of Ausangate in the ...

Weaving magic Nothing could be further from the world of identical hotels than a home stay in the Andes. Ann Noon books a bed with the locals in the textile-producing village of Chinchero, Peru ...