This journey is a special celebration of Solstice. So we begin by receiving the solstice within the perfection of the sacred geometry of Machu Picchu. After the December solstice we will celebrate Christmas Eve and Morning in Cusco. While steeped in ancient history, Cusco is very much alive today in the sway of Latino fiestas. You will have to experience for yourself the energies that fizz and sparkle in the plaza at sundown.
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. They will take you to the Lima Sheraton.
Day 2: With our Lima guide you will return to the airport, usually just before 5:00am, for your flight to Cusco. 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 the very Andean village of Ollantaytambo where we will catch the 2-hr 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 Bill's. Includes: (B).
Day 3: 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. Includes: (B), (D).
Day 4: 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 5: 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. Includes: (B).
Day 6: Starting with sunrise in the ancient temple if you'd like. During the June journey we will leave early to go to the Inti Raymi folk dance festival (optional $70US extra) and Inca re-enactment in the Temple of Sacsaywaman above Cusco. During the December solstice 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 2 nights at the hotel Arqueologo.
Day 7: 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, evidence of a highly advanced 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. During the December journey we will celebrate Christmas Eve in the massive plaza energies.
Day 8: In the morning we join other travelers in a nice new Mercedes bus (sorry, you won't be able to enjoy any of the native pigs and chickens on this ride) for an 7-hr drive through beautiful mountains and Andean villages to Lake Titicaca. Then in Chucuito, an ancient village by the lake, those who choose can have a coca leaf psychic reading with a woman who is an Aymara Yatiri, a native ceremonial leader. We stay at Las Cabaņas.
Day 9: We have this whole day in this traditional Andean village with out getting in a vehicle and running off somewhere. The morning will be filled with the Yatiti building a ceremony called "Offering to the Pachamama (Divine Mother)".
Day 10: A 1/2-hr drive from town we will go through a fantastic area of white bad-lands, an area of high magnetic charge where the locals say many spirits hang around. There at the mesa of Cutimbo we will visit the megalithic ceremonial power towers built by the highly advanced ancient ones. Returning to Puno we pick up your bags, then a 40 min. drive to the airport in Juliaca to catch an afternoon flight to Arequipa, a beautiful colonial town under massive volcanoes. We will stay the night at Casa de Melgar.
Day 11: A 9-hr bus ride takes us down to the beautiful coast then north to Nasca. After dinner in Nasca we will leave town and return to the desert to stay three nights at an oasis in an old hacienda, the Hostel Wasi Punko.
Day 12: First thing in the morning we will be flying over the lines for the aerial view and only way to see the size and scope of the zoomorphic figures and the long lines covering many miles. Then in the afternoon we will be out on the sacred hills that radiate the long lines drawn in the desert, this is to truly be in touch with the energy of this massive sacred site.
Day 13: In the cool and calm of the desert morning we will go to the Cahuachi pyramid and temple complex where in ages past tens of thousands of pilgrims had come to celebrate the energy and spirituality of Nasca.
Day 14: In the morning we will visit viewing tower in the midst of Nasca's gigantic zoomorphic drawings to get a closer look and then we'll go nearby to another sacred hill radiating the lines to get good and plugged in to the power of the place again. Midday we leave on a 3-hr drive, continuing up the coast to the town of Pisco with it's beach and plaza fun. During the December journey, having been lined out in the Nasca cosmic calendar for a few days, this is where we will celebrate New Years Eve in another great plaza fiesta. We stay one night at the hotel San Isidro.
Day 15: We will start this day with a boat ride to visit the wildlife sanctuary at the Ballestas Islands with hundreds of sea lions and thousands of birds including flamingos and penguins. Also to see what is called the Candelbra, a giant etching on a coastal hill that points towards the Nasca lines. In the afternoon we will bus 3-hrs back to Lima to meet your flights home.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Note: 22 out of the possible 42 meals on this journey are provided. B= breakfast, L= lunch, D= dinner.
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Peru
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