~ Comfortable tribal lodging with Eco Wanamei

IMPORTANT: Air travel to South America often experiences delays; missed connections are not uncommon. Carry these contact numbers with you so that we don't lose you!

Lima contacts: Sacred Heritage coordinators, Janet Cisneros (51Peru-1) 980-129-686 and Feli Flores (51Peru-1) 997-254-236.

Day 2:
With your Lima guide you will return to the airport around 06.00 for your flight to Cusco usually at 08.00. Sorry about the early hour but we have an important travel day before us and we would like to get settled into the lodge and strolling about before dark.

From Cusco we drive some 6hrs up and over to the jungle-side of the Andes. Here the Amazon moisture laden air dramatically pushes up from the low lands, cloud condensing, super-soaking the Cloud Forest; a striking country of steep slope forest deeply draped in mosses, ferns, lichens and orchids. Waterfalls and cataract rivers adorn abyss walled cliffs.

The dense jungle on extreme slopes is so impenetrable that places we see have likely never been trod by humanity; there are areas near the mountains still not mapped.

We stay the first night at the fantastic Cock-of-Rocks Lodge. While we travel through the jungle all meals are provided until we get back to town.

~ The Cloud Forest

Days 4-5:
A unique characteristic of the Matsiguenka of this village are the many well cared for wide walking trails near their village, for your pleasure with or with guides. Each day a few of the villagers will join us at our lodge to demonstrate their traditional ways and perhaps share stories. For those sharing the Ayahuasca ceremonies we will together in the mornings sharing and integrating our experiences.

~ Wanamei Lodges.
Day 6:
Mid morning we will leave to boat 6hrs down river to stay the night at another tribal owned lodge near the Rio Blanco.

~ In the Amazon, the rivers are the highways.

Day 7:
A morning departure for an 8 hr day of travel on river and road to bring us to the jungle town of Puerto Maldonaldo.

We will stay one night at the Wasai Lodge (51/84) 572-290.

~ Wasai Lodge.

~ Amazon tributary.

Day 8:
A mid-morning flight will return us to Cusco and we drive 2-hours down to the Urubamba Valley and very Andean the village of Ollantaytambo.

From there, we will catch the 2hr train to Machu Picchu. Below the ruins, down by the river, we will stay in Aguas Calientes, a great little tropical fiesta village.

Here we stay two nights at Gringo Bill's tel (51-84) 21-1046.

Day 10:
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. We will stay two nights at the Hotel Hampi T'ika (51-84) 20-4111.

Day 11:
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. The rest of the day is ours to enjoy the wondrous village.

Day 12:
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 Arqueologo Hotel (51-84) 23-2569.

~ Ollantaytambo pre-Inca megalithic

Day 13:
In Cusco we will start the day with a native shaman will lead us in our first ceremony of cleansing and connection. Then we 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.

~ Machine like Q'enko