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Sarchi

          

 

Once a dull place where the inhabitants spent day and night painting bullock carts, Sarchi is now a center of arts and crafts. The customers, who are dropped off every day in busloads, are lured into the workshops with free food. The undisputed market leader of Sarchi is still the Fabrica Joaquin Chaveri. In the backyard are small workshops where bullock carts and other objects are artfully painted, and the shop contains a large assortment of furniture, bowls, bowls, boxes and walking sticks with parrot heads for handles. This is the place to buy a cowhide rocking chair, found on the verandas of many hotels across the country. In the main square of Sarchi there is a church with two towers, surrounded by a garden, where the benches,