Friday night we went to a place to see the Brisas del Titicaca. It is a group that tries to preserve the culture heritage of Peruvian groups. Everyone region has its own dance, clothing, and music. I can't say which region had which dance because all of the background information was in Spanish and no one understood it. There was a Peruvian flute band. They had a big bass drum and a snare with 15 people with flutes marching around the stage. They did a number later with pan flutes. A link of some of the dances on YouTube. You can't really explain it. They would have a traditional dance with the large group. They would have smaller dances doing Marinera.
Between dances, the band would plan songs and people would come onto the dance floor and dance. You could tell who was foreign and who was native just by dancing. We were hugely terrible. We can't move our feet. We can't move our hips. We have absolutely no rhythm. But apparently the you have to learn your region's dance when you are in school.
We went to the church of Saint Francis of Assissi. That church and monastary was built in the late 1600s. A lot of paints were from the 1690s. We went into the public crypt. I will update this later when I have more time.
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