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Kallawaya Healers
offered by supplier M07366 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 15
day(s)
Group Size: 1
- 15
people
Destination(s):
Bolivia
Peru
Specialty Categories:
Pilgrimage/Spirituality
Cultural Journey
Season: April - December
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: Yes
Minimum Per Person Price: 3000 US Dollar (USD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 3000 US Dollar (USD)
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On the Bolivian side of Lake Titikaka, the high Andes, are the home of the extraordinary order of healers known as the Kallawayas. They were the doctors to the Inka Kings and priests. Now known as the gypsies of South America, they have traveled far gathering knowledge of herbs and ceremony.
Ceremonial Therapy
The Kallawayas are able to see into the patterns of many aspects of life, such as work, worship, health and relationships, where there is imbalance they can repattern through the focus of ceremony. This is more than a magic wand passed over...and 'poof'...all is right. The ceremonies are an extraordinarily powerful boost bringing ongoing experiential education.
Today these wise ones carry on in their unbroken lineage of knowledge and you are invited to meet with them in this journey of healing and learning of their ancient ways. The teachings will come from Inka Quechua and Aymara priestesses and priests at Machu Picchu, Cuzco and Lake Titikaka as well as the Kallawaya healer shamans.
On this journey, we will be sometimes staying in small villages where meals and bedding are provided. At times our traveling will be fairly rigorous with some early mornings and daily moving to a new local. Though we are not trekking, it will help to get in good physical shape.
This journey helps create the deep mountain Akamani Retreat where the healers will come to meet with travelers. This will also be a staging point for caravans of eco-llama trekking involving several remote villages, creating much locally based work and income.
Your 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. 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. (See: Expanded History) 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: 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. Late morning 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. On the 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. Includes: (B), (D);
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, 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. Includes: (B);
Day 8: Mid-morning we fly to La Paz, Bolivia. We stay one night downtown in the heart of the big city, right in the Witches Market. Besides the many shaman's ceremonial items being sold in the market there are handicrafts gathered from all over Bolivia. We will stay one night at the Naira. Includes: (B);
Day 9: Early morning we leave in 4x4 vehicles for a 9-hr drive along Lake Titicaca and the 21,000 ft. peaks of the Royal Range. Along the way we will get out and play up on the 15,000 feet above sea level pass called Puma Sani, the place of the Puma. Then dropping way down though Charazani and the travelers home we have built in the small traditional village of Nino Corin, where we will stay for 3-nights. In Nino Corin there is no electricity or indoor plumbing. We do enjoy the romance of candlelight at night and an outhouse with world-class views. Simple washcloth bathing works for a few days (bring one) and the hot springs are nearby. That evening we will begin our experience of the Kallawayas with Papa Pablo and a psychic diagnosis though the casting and reading of coca leaves. Includes: (B), (L), (D);
Day 10: Before the morning's light we will begin the work of constructing the offerings and powerful patterns of prayer with the master healer/magician Papa Pablo. The ceremony will be at daybreak in a sacred site within ancient ruins up on a mountainside. This is work that has often resulted in the re-patterning of our travelers lives. Includes: (B), (L), (D);
Day 11: On this day we will simply be. The day in this traditional, way outback village may come to be one of your most treasured memories. Beyond the electrical power grid and telephones, moving as it is said here "con calma" (with calm). There is an imprinting to be gained from being around the people living in the connection of traditional roots stretching back through tens of thousands of years. Perhaps in the morning we'll choose to visit the hot springs. Includes: (B), (L), (D);
Day 12: In the morning we will walk down the ridge about a hour to the home of Don Pinto for another coca leaf reading. He will then build the 'Offering to the Mother' that begins creating the energies that can re-pattern places of imbalance in our lives. In the afternoon we will be dropping down to Charazani to enjoy the hot spring and stay the night in the area's central town plaza. Includes: (B), (L), (D);
Day 13: In the early morning we leave the mountains for a 4-hr ride down to lake Titicaca. There we will meet the boat that will take us 3 or 4-hrs across the lake to Copacabana. Through the ages, seekers from the entire Andean region have made pilgrimages to this village sacred to Mamacota, the Mother Lake. We stay one night at La Cupula. Includes: (B), (L);
Day 14: An easy morning. We can meet with local Yatitis (shamans) on their sacred hill. From them you can receive Incenso, a ritual of incense, smoke, chant and prayer for cleansing and supplication. There is also great native crafts shopping here. Midday we leave for a 3-hr drive returning to Peru. Along the way we experience a Temple Portal (recently labeled the Gateway of Amara Muru). The portal is an inter-dimensional gateway serving as a connection with the ancient ancestors. It is carved into red cliff stone in an area traditionally known for its radiating lines of geo-energy. We stay that night at Puno, Peru. For those who choose coca leaf psychic readings will be offered. That night we stay near town at the Eco Inn. Includes: (B);
Day 15: In the morning an hour's drive will take us through a fantastic area of white badlands, an area of high magnetic charge where the locals say there are ghosts. There at the mesa of Cutimbo we will visit the megalithic ceremonial power towers built by the highly advanced ancient ones. Another 1-hr drive will get us to the airport in Juliaca to catch an afternoon flight to Lima. If you chose, our Lima guides can take you out on the town for a while, then back to the airport to meet your departing flight home. Includes: (B).
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Also see tour packages in:
South America
Bolivia
Peru
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