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The Llamatrek is helping to promote sustainability in the region by using tourism to provide economic opportunity for the people who live in the villages, and by helping to preserve cultural traditions that have been around for thousands of years,
C HA P T E R F I V E A N C A S H
Llamatrek’s final destination is equally
and one of those traditions is, of course, walking with llamas. 59