Reverse tourism

Peruanos can tell where someone is from by their native dress, kind of how plaids signify a clan in Scotland.

Saturday was International Tourism Day, and Cuzco and surrounding towns turned out in droves for a parade, basically to thanks tourists -- and get in a plug for their business before the thousands of tourists looking on.

The parade went on for nearly four hours.

An announcer on a dais before the cathedral detailed each and every float and passing troupe, in the style of a South American sports announcer. For four hours.

There was a lot of Incan presence throughout the afternoon.

There were at least 10,000 people surrounding the Plaza de Armas, watching the parade, and the slight majority were locals. And a quarter of them were selling something. A couple of old women went around and stuck a lapel pin on you before you knew what was going on. Then they demanded money. I didn´t need a lapel pin.