Handicraft Center Cusco — Attraction in Wanchaq

Many of the vendors there misrepresent their products as “hand made” and “100% alpaca” when a majority are from china and in many cases the tags containing the true material make up have been cut off. Don’t trust these high volume vendors as they are buying at heavily discounted prices and marking them up to sell to unknowing consumers. I found that the closer I got to plaza de armas, the more issues the stores/shops could point out about the garments and textiles...

Quite good market for buying some crafts, more shops and more organised setting. There are a lot of similar things to the ones sold at San Pedro market but still bigger variety, can be better quality, also prices are a bit higher here, you can negotiate. A lot of things are made in china but it’s possible to find some real local treasures, if you’re attentive and have a...

Broad offering of traditional looking products. Don’t believe however that what you buy is 100% alpaca. It turned out that often the garments only contain up to 50% alpaca combined with normal wool / synthetics. There is honestly no way to know what you are exactly buying, unless you go to specialised stores with labels (where ofcourse full...