Even if you are not buying, the café balconies overlooking the market offer superb people-watching: Hundreds of camera-toting tourists, from every conceivable country on earth, haggle with Quechuan-speaking merchants, all to the beat of drum-and-juggling sessions put on by a scraggly band of local hippies. Quality tends to be in the low to middle range—the good stuff is found in the homes of the artesanos themselves or in upscale city galleries—but, after a bit of bargaining, prices can be very reasonable, especially if buying in quantity. Though touristy beyond belief, the Pisac Market has a remarkably deeper side that is rooted in its colonial past and has proven resilient to mass tourism. On Sundays only, campesinos from surrounding villages set up a barter market, or mercado de treque, which is an ancient Peruvian custom and an interesting example of the informal economies upon which highlanders depend.