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Amazon Herbal Camp
offered by supplier M07366 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 15
day(s)
Group Size: 1
- 5
people
Destination(s):
Peru
Specialty Categories:
Ecotourism
Season: April - May
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: No
Minimum Per Person Price: 3300 US Dollar (USD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 3300 US Dollar (USD)
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Our camps start with a day's ride in motorized covered canoe, following various rivers into remote rain forest. We travel along the Ucayali River, just down stream from Machu Picchu. From our first night's camp we will go in the morning to visit a nearby Shipibo indigenous village.
From there we will boat deeper into the forest to enjoy our camp in the wilds. The season, the water depth in the smaller rivers, and the shaman traveling with us knowing the areas of good spirits will determine where we stay. The natives accompanying us will be cooking local food and guiding in dugout canoes and forest walks.
The wildlife is here, commonly monkeys, macaws, iguana and sloth, along with all the others, though naturally we can make no promises on what be seen. I will say, though, that there are amazing amounts of the Amazon Pink Dolphins in these waters and on most of our journeys we see 30-50 of them.
We normally journey with two native healers; the elder will offer his ceremonial prayers for individual healing. Also offered will be the use of forest fresh herbs for healing. To allow time for them to gather and prepare you please let us know before hand (after arrival is possible also).
The shamans we work with are those who carry the ceremonial lineage of their Grandfather's Grandfathers bringing the stability of their ancient continuum into what can be a life changing and healing experience. The Ayahuasca ceremonial therapy, along with physical healing, can bring positive change to life patterns, addictions, personality, emotions, and even our spirituality.
The healing change is usually gained in direct experiential understanding. Again this healing is offered at your own request, responsibility and risk and most likely great personal benefit. The medicinal plants and the ceremonies are only offered, nothing is mandatory.
Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: Arriving in the afternoon or at night, depending on your flight, you will be met at the airport by one of our Lima guides, look for the red bandanna. We will stay this night at the hotel Sol de Oro. Important: Air travel to South America often experiences delays and missed connections are not uncommon. Contact us to give you our contact numbers; don't leave home without them so that we don't lose you!
Day 2: In the morning we will fly to Pucallpa. Near Pucallpa we will go to and cross the Lake Yarinacocha, to rest that afternoon at La Perla Lodge.
(B), (D)
Day 3: In the morning we board the boat for 8-hour ride through the forest to our first camp. All meals are provided while we are in camp;
Day 4-5: In the morning a short ride takes us to a native Shipibo village where we will stop for a visit. A couple more hours in the boat gets us to our Amazon rain forest camp where we remain the next two days;
Day 6: This day we boat back to the La Perla Lodge.
(D)
Day 7: Today moving slow we will visit a Shipibo village and the bustling jungle town of Pucallpa.
Day 8: An easy morning around the lodge. In the afternoon we will fly to Lima, staying again at the Traveler's Inn.
(B)
Day 9: We must return to the airport for our flight to Cusco at at a most uncivilized hour, usually between 4:00 and 5:00am. Sorry about the early hour but it must be in order to catch the train to Machu Picchu where you start your journey at the lowest altitude. From there we slowly make our way up to the heights, allowing most people to adjust easily.
From Cusco we drive 2-hours down to the Urubamba Valley and very Andean the village of Ollantaytambo where we will catch the 2hr train to Machu Picchu. That afternoon you will be in the ruins (or take another nap if you haven't already along the way). Below the ruins, down by the river, we will stay in Aguas Calientes, a great little tropical fiesta village with hot springs. Here we stay two nights at Gringo Bills.
(B)
Day 10: This will be a full day of Machu Picchu. Through many millennia Machu Picchu has served as an initiatory center for students of a higher learning. The ancient sacred site is fed by a grid of powerful natural energies patterned by the surrounding peaks above and from extensive caverns below.
While many succeeding cultures built at Machu Picchu, its origins are seen in the megalithic (gigantic stone) structures left by an ancient highly advanced people many thousands of years vanished. Our guide in the ruins, Kucho, shares information of the traditions taught to him by a by a local Andean master shaman.
(B), (D)
Day 11: Moving slower this morning, going back up to the ruins if you wish, many people choose to walk along the river to enjoy the rain forest, there are waterfalls to be visited and a sacred peak to climb. Then the late afternoon train returns us up the Urubamba River to Ollantaytambo.
Here you will meet with a local woman wise in the ways of herbal and native natural healing traditions. If you wish you can go into individual diagnosis and later return for treatment. We will stay two nights at the healing center and hotel Hampi. Includes: (B), (D);
Day 12: We will start the day in the megalithic ruins known to have been a landing pad of the ancient ones, a pre-cataclysmic power spot. In the afternoon, at the healing center, a native shaman will lead us in our first ceremony of cleansing and connection. A herbal sauna will be offered this night.
(B)
Day 13: In the morning you can rest in the countryside nature of our healing center or go visit the charming village of Ollantaytambo that still sits on its pre-Inca stone foundations. At mid-day we begin a 2-hr ride to Cusco. Along the way we will stop at Grandmother's house in the village of Chinchero to share a traditional meal with a native Quechua/Inca family.
This evening we immerse ourselves in the strong energies of the nightly plaza fiesta of Cusco, a plaza with party tradition of many thousands of years. There we will stay two nights at the hotel Arqueologo.
(B), (L)
Day 14: In Cusco we will visit various megalithic temples to immerse you in the geo-energy wisdom of the ancient ancestors. They built these temples on natural power sites with perfectly fitted stones weighing in excess of 300 tons!
Also to be seen are the many hundreds of most enigmatic machine like carvings in the living rock, perhaps this is evidence of a industrial civilization dating thousands of years prior to the Inca Empire. In the evening local women will be guiding us through the fascinating markets near the main plaza. This is a great place for shopping for the crafts have been gathered here from all over Peru.
(B)
Day 15: You can take it easy on our last morning there, or run around town down in the plaza and markets again if you wish. A late afternoon flight will return you to Lima to meet your departing flight home.
(B)
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
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South America
Peru
Nature & Wildlife
Ecotourism
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