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Program 9 days 8 nights |
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Reception at the airport in Cusco and transfer to the hotel in the Sacred Valley of the Inca’s.
In the afternoon we will meet our mystical Andean guide who will give us detailed explanations on all ceremonies that will be performed in the coming days.
After that, a purification ceremony with incense and condor feathers will be performed.
We will also do a Kapachi ceremony, which is a purification ceremony of the body and soul. The smoke from the incense is sacred and the Inca ancestors already used the incense in their ceremonies they performed just before important events like Inti Raymi.
Lunch.
Dinner.
Coca-chewing session, explanation about the significance and importance of the sacred coca leaves for the Andean people.
Coca reading session.
Noche de Hotel.
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Visit to the Sacred Valley of The Inca’s.
Lunch at the Alhambra restaurant in Urubamba.
Return to the hotel at approximately 18.00.
19.00 Dinner.
Evening with music; Andean musicians and musical therapists will be participating.
Noche de hotel.
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Offering ceremony for the mother earth and in the afternoon meditation.
After the meditation session, some time off in the Sacred Valley.
Noche de hotel.
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Transfer from the Sacred Valley to Cusco.
Free day.
19:30 Dinner.
Noche de hotel.
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3:30 Pick up from the hotel to go to the place where we will wait for the sunrise and the winter solstice. Here a offering to the mother earth and a meditation session will be performed. The mystical Andean priest will perform the ceremonies and we will be waiting for the sunrise around the campfire, accompanied by the guide and musicians.
Recommendations: Bring sleeping bag, warm clothes; gloves and hat.
We will be returning to the hotel at around 8.00
12:30 Lunch.
14:00 Visit to the 4 archaeological sites near Cusco and the Cathedral and temple of the sun.
Includes visits to:
- THE CATHEDRAL: Was constructed on top of the foundations of an Inca Palace and took nearly a century to complete (94 years). Inside the cathedral there are over 400 paintings from the Cusquenian art school which included local artists as well as Europeans. There is also a large collection of wooden works of art finished with silver leaf all dating from the colonial period.
- QORICANCHA: This is the Sun Temple, built under the rule of the Inca Pachacutec, it was the most important Inca Temple. The temple was seen by the Incas as the centre of the world and its surprising and unique architecture is evidence of this.
- SAQSAYHUAMAN: Located 2 Km north of Cusco City. During the Inca empire the city took the form of a puma with Saqsayhuaman being the head. The construction is colossal with stones weighing up to 90 tons and 9 meters tall. Although some of it has been destroyed you can still appreciate the majestic constructions.
- QENQO: Lies 6 Km. from Cusco. Here we visit the underground chamber where ceremonies such as animal sacrifices would have taken place as offerings to the earth. The Zigzagging network of small canals was used to direct the flow of the blood of the sacrificed animals.
- PUCAPUCARA: Was a tambo (a rest point) where the Incas would have taken a break before heading to the Water Temple for a ceremony.
- TAMBOMACHAY: Was the Water Temple, for the Incas water was an element that purified the spirit. Due to this the Inca or priest had to take a purifying bath before taking part in any type of ceremony.
18.00 Return to Cusco.
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Purification ceremony with plants
The ceremony will take place in Moray, circular terraces in the Sacred Valley. These terraces were used in an agricultural experiment where the Inca’s cultivated corn, quinoa, Panti and Kantu flowers and other plants and flowers.
All terraces were provided water for with a water irrigation system constructed by the Inca’s, a construction made in such a perfect way that until now the systems’ working is absolutely impeccable.
In Inca times Moray used to be an artificial paradise of flowers and plants, like a greenhouse in the ground.
10:00 Pick up from the hotel.
11:00 Explanation about the importance and the significance of this ceremony.
Greet to the Apus.
Shaman singing.
Meditation.
13:00 Ceremony.
14:00 Lunch.
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Breakfast at the hotel.
Machu Picchu.
5:30 Pick up from the hotel, transfer to the train station in Cusco.
Includes: Hotel pickup and transfer to the train station, return train journey in Vistadome train, return bus journey to Machu Picchu from Aguas Calientes, entrance fee to Machu Picchu, professional bilingual guide, lunch in Aguas Calientes.
21.00 (approximately), return to Cusco, pick up and transfer to the hotel.
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A staged reproduction that expresses the harmonious relationship between man and the Sun God (Inti), the most important Inca divinity. The show begins at Qoricancha then continues towards the Plaza de Armas before finishing at Saqsayhuaman.
8:30 Pick up from the hotel, transfer to the sun temple ‘Qorikancha’. In the garden of the temple, that used to be the golden garden but now is a green field, the ceremony will start.
The first rituals in honor of the Sun God and the mother earth will be performed here.
After this we will continue to the main square or ‘Huacaypata’ where the ceremony will go o non a platform also called the ‘Ushnu’ (a ceremonial platform that has been destroyed completely by the Spaniards, nowadays an imitation platform is used).
13:00 Main presentation on the Sacred Plaza of Sacsaywaman (duration approximately 90 min. ) Here the rituals with fire, coca and offeringceremonies for the 4 suyos ( the 4 lands of the old Inca Empire) will be performed.
After that there will be a demonstration of traditional dances.
16:00 Transfer to the hotel.
Noche de hotel.
19:30 Dinner with show.
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Transfer to the airport.
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Pickups and transfers in all places
All ceremonies and excursions indicated in the programme
Entrance tickets for all places we visit
3 Nights in a hotel in the Sacred Valley of the Inca’s
5 Nights in a hotel in Cusco
8 Breakfasts, 3 lunches in the Sacred Valley, 2 dinners in the Sacred Valley, 1 lunch in Cusco, 1 lunch in Aguas Calientes, 1 box lunch on day 3 and 1 box lunch on day 8
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6 days / 5 Nights
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Hatun Kuski Killa
In the Andes the winter solstice is seen as rebirth. At this time of year all of nature renews itself.
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Offering to the earth
This Inca ritual, which many Andean communities still continue, consists of offering gifts to Mother Erth in thanks for all that she provides for the people and animals.
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Purification Ceremony
Temascal is an ancient indigenous tradition in the Americas. It involves a small chamber made from wooden poles and covered with cloth so that its circular interior is totally sealed apart from the door which can also be covered.
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Aramu Muru
Situated 35 kilometers from Puno and very close to Lake Titicaca, amidst green fields, we find what is considered one of the wonders of the region: The door of Aramu Muru, a stone construction seven meters wide and seven meters tall.
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Inca hanging bridge
Less than a hundred miles from Cusco lies the impressive Apurimac River Canyon. Apurimac in Quechua means “the God who talks”.
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