The rodeo of the Andes! Peruvian villagers celebrate traditional festival by capturing rare vicunas and shearing them of their wool (which is worth its weight in gold, literally)

The rodeo of the Andes! Peruvian villagers celebrate traditional festival by capturing rare vicunas and shearing them of their wool (which is worth its weight in gold, literally) Dozens of the animals were gently captured, shorn of their long, tawny brown and white wool, then set free in the ancient festival known as the 'chaccu' in Peru.