The catering tents serving pisco sours and non-alcoholic chicha morada made from purple maize.

Their beverage, called chicha-a name common throughout South America-wasprepared from honey and water.

The peddler of chicha carries around a large stone jar, about a yard in depth.

The whole community gathers to drink chicha, a strong local beer, to celebrate girlhood and womanhood.

In Nicaragua "chicha," a kind of light beer, made from maize, is still the favourite Indian beverage.