ITINERARY TITICACA TRADITIONS

Lake Titicaca and 21,000 ft. Mt. Illampu

26 out of the possible 42 meals on this journey are provided. This journey provides an in-depth experience of 'Mother Lake Titicaca' with several tradition keepers, many of them women. ~ Includes Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley, Cusco, Lake Titicaca and the Island of the Moon, Bolivia.

B= breakfast, L= lunch, D= dinner included 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 them to be HOLDING a RED BANDANA. They will take you to the Lima Sheraton Tel (51Peru- 1) 315-5022. 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 contact: Peru Travel Service, Vilma (51Peru 1) 9875-2207, or Betty (51 1) 987- 2206; Cusco contact: Sacred Heritage coordinator, Graciela Leon 51/(84) 984 7477 Day 2: With your Lima guide you will return to the airport around 07.00 for your 09.00 (usually) flight to Cusco. Sorry about the early hour but it must be in order to catch the last train to Machu Picchu where we will start our 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 . Then 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 -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. - B-D- ~ Machu Picchu displaying pre-Inca awareness, sacred geometry and geo-energy flows

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. We will stay one night at the Hotel Hampi T'ika (51-84) 20-4111. -B- 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. 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. - B-L- ~ Ollantaytambo pre-Inca megalithic

Day 6: 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

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 - L- Day 7: We leave in the early morning for a 9-hr drive through beautiful mountains and Andean villages to Bolivia and Copacabana on Lake Titicaca. Through the ages, Andean peoples have made pilgrimages to this village sacred to Mamacota, the Mother Lake. We stay two nights at La Cupula Tel( 59 Bolivia 12) 862- 2140. - B- ~ Copacabana, Bolivia. A sacred site dedicated to honoring the Divine Mother at Lake Titicaca

Day 8: An easy day, late morning we can climb the sacred hill to meet with local Yatiris, native Aymara shamans. From them you can receive Incenso, a ritual of incense, smoke, chant and prayer for cleansing and supplication. There is also great shopping for Bolivian crafts in Copacabana. -B- ~ Ceremony of Insenso going up in smoke

Day 9: After lunch in town we leave to boat 2-hrs to the Island of the Moon and the Temple of the Priestesses. This is one of our planet's most powerful centers of feminine energy, with energies eminently effective and available. ~ View from Island of the Moon

We will stay the night at our traveler's home with the island family who are the keepers of the temple. There is no electricity or indoor plumbing on the island. So we enjoy the romance of candlelight at night. The simplicity of an outhouse and washcloth bathing (bring one) works well enough for an overnight visit. -B-D ~ Temple of the Priestesses, Island of the Moon

Day 10: In the morning we will boat back to Copacabana. From Copacabana we leave for a 3-hr drive returning to Peru. ~ Grandmother Mamani

Along the way we experience a Temple Portal (recently labeled the Gateway of Amara Muru). The natives know the portal is an inter-dimensional gateway serving as a connection with another world, perhaps with the ancestors. It is carved into red cliff stone in an area known for its radiating lines of geo-energy. Then we go to stay in Chucuito, Peru, an old and traditional village above a large bay. ~ Lake Titicaca dimensional portal linked to the temple of the ancient ascended ones

For those who choose coca leaf psychic readings will be offered. We stay two nights at Las Cabañas: (51Peru-54) 35-1276. - B-D- Day 11: In the peaceful village we visit a woman who is an Aymara Yatiri, a native ceremonial healer. She also will build the powerful ceremony of 'Offering to the Pachamama'. The energies created by this traditional form of worship has quite often resulted in dramatic life changes and answers to prayers. - B-L-D- ~ Divining by reading the coca leaves

Day 12: In the morning we will leave for a 3-hr boat ride to the Island Amantani. It is a wonderfully traditional island with no roads or electricity, thus again candlelight and washcloths. We will stay two nights in rooms prepared in the homes of native families. - B-L-D-

Day 13: In the morning we will climb to two extremely old temples, one dedicated to the Divine Mother, Pachamama and the other to the Divine Father, Pachatata. - B-L-D- Day 14: After an early breakfast we boat back to the mainland and to the airport in Juliaca for a short flight to Arequipa. There we will stay one night at the Hotel Casa de Melgar (51-54) 22-2459. –B- Day 15: Arequipa, under its magnificent desert volcanoes, is much lower and warmer than lake Titicaca. We stay near the beautiful colonial plaza where you can relax for an unhurried morning and afternoon. In the evening we have a short flight back to Lima to meet your departing flights. –B-

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