Traveling and getting to know other destinations is, naturally, a journey for the soul. This beautiful journey is designed to improve your well-being through healthy food, ancestral Andean ceremonies, and knowledge of medicinal plants, yoga, dance, and art.
Walk through the most beautiful places of the Andes, camp under a million stars, connect authentically with our culture, by communing with beautiful women weavers and teachers of the Amaru community.
Walk the last 13 km. (8.5 mi.) of the legendary Inca trail to Machu Picchu where you will discover the seventh wonder of the modern world.
Your journey begins in Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca Empire and cultural heritage of humanity. At the airport, a Terra Explorer guide will welcome and accompany you to your hotel in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
Certified in natural healing therapies, sound and crystal healing, ashtanga yoga, and Ayurveda, she opens the doors of her center: Yoga Mandala Sacred Valley, and will accompany you on a journey for the soul. Definitely, the best sacred valley tour
Meals included: Dinner.
Accommodation: Yoga Mandala, Sacred Valley.
Start the day by opening your heart with a sound healing circle. With crystal bowls and ancient Peruvian musical instruments, align your chakras and body energy.
Connect with yourself through the practice of ashtanga yoga, a class assisted by our beautiful teacher and hostess.
After a healthy lunch, you will take part in a temazcal, a therapeutic ritual of heat and steam, inspired by the ancient pre-Hispanic practices of traditional medicine, which will leave you in a deep state of peace, introspection, and purification.
We close the day’s circle with a flower and medicinal plant bath.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Accommodation: Yoga Mandala, Sacred Valley.
We begin the morning with a guided meditation, which aims to reduce stress levels and modify your emotions by achieving a deep state of relaxation. Continue enjoying the energy of the Sacred Valley of the Incas with an ashtanga yoga class with Melinda.
Then, participate in a healthy food workshop. Learn about local ingredients and their properties.
This afternoon, have the privilege of meeting Argentinean Alejandro Trevisán, a permaculturist and alchemist who has spent more than 20 years researching medicinal plants and medicines in ancestral Mexican and Andean cultures. With him, walk through a ravine in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, identify and collect medicinal plants, and learn more about their uses.
Share a workshop in which you will learn how to make a remedy, either an ointment or a tincture. Introduce yourself to the basics of distillation and the world of essential oils and hydrolats, and learn more about their use in natural cosmetics and in the treatment of common ailments.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Accommodation: Yoga Mandala a detox resort, Sacred Valley.
Start the day by visiting the home of a master weaver in the community of Chinchero; and, through their millenary textile art, experience the real Andean world. From here, you will ride mountain bikes through fields, villages, and snow-capped mountains to the beautiful Huaypo Lake. Our chef, an expert in healthy food, will be waiting for you with a nutritious and delicious lunch.
In the afternoon, together with an Andean shaman, you will participate in a ceremony of ancestral origin, where the earth is revered as the source of life and where you can connect with your goals and gratitude. Relax with a massage and, at nightfall, enjoy a fire under a sky filled with stars. Finish by enjoying a candlelight dinner.
Spend the night glamping with the sophistication and comfort of luxury accommodations, while practicing 100% environmentally sustainable methods.
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Accommodation: Glamping at Huaypo lake.
Be part of one of the most beautiful sunrises in the world as you watch the waters of Huaypo become home to a variety of endemic and migratory birds. Then warm up your morning with Andean herbal infusions, exquisite flavors of local herbs with medicinal properties.
Enjoy a yoga class with an expert, and then have an outdoor breakfast, while welcoming the first rays of sunshine upon you.
Then it will be time to explore Huaypo in its natural state; paddle its waters in expedition kayaks or with stand-up paddles, gliding amidst the reflection of the surrounding mountains and snow-capped peaks.
If you have art in your veins and enjoy the colors and textures of painting with watercolors, you are ready to capture your own version of the Peruvian Andes by painting Maras, considered one of the most beautiful areas in the Sacred Valley of the Incas.
With brushes and lots of colors, enjoy an exquisite picnic in the open air. In the company of a good wine, extensive fields of colorful crops, mountains and impressive snow-capped peaks, create your own view of the Andes.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Hotel or private house in the Sacred Valley.
Get to know Organica Lamay, a farm born from the dream of providing fresh, quality vegetables, grown with respect and conscience, through the practice of organic agriculture and permaculture.
Walk around this magnificent garden. Observe all the processes from seed production, seedling formation, soil preparation, to harvesting, composting, and connecting with the natural rhythm of the earth.
Harvest the vegetables for lunch and accompany them with delicious potatoes cooked in a Watia, an ancestral way of cooking tubers with the heat of stones.
This afternoon, Betania de Ugarte, born in the heart of these mountains in the artisan neighborhood of San Blas, opens the doors of her magical workshop in the community of Lamay.
This sacred space is her refuge, where she connects with her favorite metal: silver. And, with the energy transmitted by her stones and crystals and with the freedom to create without limits, she is inspired by the nature surrounding her. Together with her, dive into the world of ancient metals, tools, and the techniques of embossing, stamping, and polishing.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Hotel or private house in the Sacred Valley.
Live the experience of channeling your emotions through dance, in the company of Andrea, a teacher for whom dance is a gift to life.
Join Andrea in her workshop and immerse yourself in the experience of evolving through art in movement. A cacao ceremony invites you to open your heart and feel your emotions while the surrounding space invites you to listen to the impulses of your body, and inhabit your creative world and evolve, intuitively and creatively, through dance.
We invite you to a private villa in the heart of the Sacred Valley of the Incas to taste a “Pachamanca,” the best peruvian dish representative of the Peruvian Andes. It consists of cooking different ingredients underground with hot stones, earth, and herbs, a millenary technique that dates back to pre-Incan cultures in the fifth century. Accompany your lunch with a private Criolla music concert.
This afternoon meet the woman and the soul of Pichinku, a project that integrates the preservation of handicrafts with sustainable development practices and the empowerment of indigenous women. They will teach you about natural dyes and ancient dyeing techniques. Immerse yourself in a world of textures, color, and laughter during a fascinating cultural encounter.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Hotel or private house in the Sacred Valley.
Visit Amaru, a community that maintains its millenary customs, despite the passage of time. They are expert farmers and skilled weavers; moreover, their connection with the land makes them outstanding connoisseurs of native medicinal plants.
Sharing a day with this community inevitably invites you to connect with the essential. In the afternoon, visit the Pisac handicraft market, famous for bringing together artisans from neighboring communities.
Immerse yourself in the colorful world of Andean ceramics, jewelry, and textiles.
Meals included: Breakfast.
Accommodation: Hotel or private house in the Sacred Valley.
Travel the last 13 km.(8 mi.) of the legendary Inca Trail that takes you to Machu Picchu, a masterpiece of Inca architecture and engineering and considered one of the seven wonders of the modern world.
Sacred valley to Machu Picchu: A train will take you directly to Km 104 (Mile 64), the starting point of the trek. Along the way, with a spectacular view of the Urubamba Valley, visit the remains of Chachabamba and the impressive archeological complex of Wiñay Wayna, built by the Inca Pachacutec in the fifteenth century.
Continue hiking through one of the best-preserved sections of the Inca Trail, cross a cloud forest with abundant flora and fauna, including more than 300 types of orchids, until you reach the Sun Gate.
Enter through the gate and be amazed by the majestic Inca citadel, an image that will surely remain in your memory forever.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch.
Accommodation: Hotel in Machu Picchu town.
Who would have thought that just a couple of hours walk from Machu Picchu, you would arrive at one of the most impressive and least visited temples of this historical Sanctuary?
From inside the citadel and past the summit of Huayna Picchu Mountain, continue along a stretch of an Inca trail, little-traveled and perfectly well-preserved, until you reach this remarkable Inca ceremonial temple, built inside a natural cave.
Explore the Temple of the Moon, the best-kept secret of the most important religious, political, and cultural center of the Inca Empire.
In the afternoon, return by train to the Sacred Valley or Cusco city.
Meals included: Breakfast.
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