In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous women are opening their communities to visitors and sharing traditions shaped by centuries of living alongside the rainforest. From cultivating medicinal plants and embracing sacred trees to crafting pottery using ancestral techniques, the way of life they reveal casts the forest as healer, teacher and home
WORDS: J E S S I CA PRU PAS
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER – LATIN AMERICA COLLECTION 25
IMAGE: CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL PERU / MARLONG DAG