Linda Jordaan Tours
MYSTICAL PERU ADVENTURE |
Mystical Peru Tour
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7 to 20 December 2016 / 14 days
A tour with a difference! It is a combination of site-seeing, spiritual and Personal development! |
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You will visit many Peruvian places of power and participate in ceremony, ritual and teachings throughout! It is a life-changing experience of Self-discovery and empowerment as you tap into these
Ancient Wisdom Power Points With Specialist Journey Leader Linda Jordaan & Expert Tour Guide, Author & Shaman Jorge Luis Delgado You leave home as one person and return as another! Please Note: No plant medicine is offered on this tour! ITINERARYDAY 1 – WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER 2016
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Ideally, you should give yourself at least 2 nights in Cusco (or similar altitude) prior to the start of the journey to acclimatize to the high altitude, especially when you live at sea level. Should you wish to arrive in Cusco earlier, we can assist you with extra accommodation on request. This accommodation and the airport transfers are not included in your the package.
For those who are arriving in Cusco on day 1, we suggest that you arrive around midday. You will be met at Cusco airport and transferred to the Taypikala Hotel, Urubamba. This transfer is included in your tour price. After check-in at the hotel you will have some time to relax and/or explore the hotel and gardens, before meeting with Linda and Jorge Luis before dinner for orientation. There is a Welcome dinner at the Hotel afterwards. Included in the tour price. Overnight at 5* Taypikala Hotel, Urubamba on a Dinner Bed & Buffet Breakfast basis |
DAY 2 – THURSDAY 8 DECEMBER 2016
QUILLARUMIYOQ (KILLA RUMIYOQ)
After breakfast you meet Linda and Jorge at the hotel where you will be participating in ceremony, ritual and celebration. Please bring something to sit on and your snacks and drinks for the day.
After this and at the right time, you will leave the hotel and travel for approximately two hours to Quillarumiyoq, a Quechua word translated as “the place of the moon stone”. This ancient site was an Inca ceremonial site dedicated to the moon goddess Quilla and to the divinity of womanhood. Once there, you will receive an initiation from Journey Leader Linda (optional) and later you will explore this magnificent site with Jorge where after you will have some personal time to experience this site. In perfect time we will leave Quillarumiyoq and make our way back to our hotel where you will have the rest of the time free to spend at your leisure. Lunch and dinner is for your own account. Overnight at 5* Taypikala Hotel, Urubamba on a Bed & Breakfast basis |
DAY 3 – FRIDAY 9 DECEMBER 2016
PACHATUSAN, SACRED VALLEY
After breakfast, you travel through the Sacred Valley of the Incas to the majestic slopes of Apu Pachatusan - a Quechua word meaning “One who sustains the Earth”. Once there, you will visit the chapel of The Lord of Huanca, erected in 1676. This chapel commemorates the appearance of “Immanuel” at this site in the 1600’s.
This chapel also houses a stone believed to have had the image of “Immanuel” on it when it was discovered in the 1700’s. You will have an opportunity to touch this stone before visiting the two water sources near the chapel, attributed with miraculous healing properties, which are visited by thousands of pilgrims annually. Thereafter you will have an opportunity to spend some time at this spectacular site that held firmly by Apu Pachatusan. Later we will have lunch together, before making our way to Moray. Lunch is for your own account. |
MORAY
This afternoon we visit Moray, one of the most visually stunning Inca ruins and archaeological sites just west of the village of Maras.
Moray has a series of concentric terraces that descend into a depth of approximately 150 metres and leads to a circular bottom. There are six more terraces in connected ellipses rather than perfect circles, surrounding the concentric heart of Moray. There are multiple staircases that enable people to walk from the top to the bottom. The purpose of Moray is uncertain but the most widely agreed theory is that it was used to serve as an agricultural research station. After spending some time here, we will return to our Hotel. Dinner is for your own account. Overnight at 5* Taypikala Hotel, Urubamba on a Bed & Buffet Breakfast basis |
DAY 4 - SATURDAY 10TH DECEMBER 2016
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DAY 5 - SUNDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2016
URUBAMBA VALLEY
Today you have a well-deserved free day at leisure in the Sacred Valley – a time to integrate all that has taken place over the past few days. Lunch and dinner is for your own account.
Overnight at 5* Taypikala Hotel, Urubamba on a Bed & Buffet Breakfast basis |
DAY 6 - MONDAY 12TH DECEMBER 2016
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DAY 7 – TUESDAY 13 DECEMBER 2016
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DAY 8 – WEDNESDAY 14 DECEMBER 2016
TIPON
After breakfast you make your way to the Cusco side of Apu Pachatusan to explore the Tipón ruins. This Inca citadel is well hidden in the mountain above the valley and the town below. It is located on the Cusco to Puno road away from the main Cusco highlights, leaving it relatively tranquil and tourist free.
Tipón was known to be an important temple for the Incas and it was a place where they honoured the water element and performed rituals to create perfect union with the Creator and Cosmic energy. It is a beautiful archaeological site, with well-preserved Inca terracing, fountains and finely designed water channels. It is clear that the terraces were constructed for agricultural purposes as the water channels feed the whole site with fresh water, harnessed from a natural spring near the top of the site. Some of the Incan aqueducts are still in use today. The ruins of Tipón are not as extensive as some other Inca sites but it is beautifully designed and displays how advanced the Incas were architecturally. You will have some time here to explore Tipón before going to Piquillaqta. |
PIQUILLAQTA
Piquillaqta is a national archaeological park with landscapes of great interest. It is located about 30 km South-East of Cusco and is situated higher than 3,350 meters. It covers an area of 8,453 acres and was one of the most spectacular regional centres of the Wari culture.
This vast site is interesting since it is the only ruin of a pre-Inca city in the Cusco region, and is attributed to the Wari culture that emerged in the central highlands around 1000 AD. It would appear that Piquillaqta was given its name after the arrival of the Spaniards. The name used in Inca times is unknown. |
RUMICOLCA
Rumicolca was also initially constructed by the Wari (Huari) people and served as a southern entrance to and frontier of their empire. It was once the gigantic stone gateway into the Cusco valley that served as the border checkpoint and customs post, at the Southern entrance to the Wari Empire.
The Inca enhanced the original construction of their predecessors and fortified it with Andesite. They then continued using the gateway for the same purpose as the Wari did. The gateway still stands, rearing up to twelve solid metres above the ground and are another impressive Inca construction. After exploring the site you will return to Cusco where you will have the rest of the day free. Lunch and Dinner is for your own account. Overnight at 3* Taypikala Hotel, Cusco on Bed & Buffet Breakfast basis |
DAY 9 – THURSDAY 15 DECEMBER 2016
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DAY 10 – FRIDAY 16 DECEMBER 2016
TOURIST BUS FROM CUSCO TO PUNO
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After early breakfast, you leave our hotel with your luggage to meet your Bus for Puno. This is a pleasant scenic drive with an enjoyable stop at Tinajani where you will visit the Mama Cocha Cave.
A buffet lunch will also be enjoyed on route and is included in the tour price. You arrive in Puno early evening where after you will transfer to your Chucuito hotel. Dinner is for your own account. Overnight at 3* Taypikala Lago Hotel, Chucuito on a Lunch, Bed & Buffet Breakfast basis |
DAY 11 - SATURDAY 17TH DECEMBER 2016
UROS FLOATING ISLANDS
Lake Titicaca is located on the border of Peru and Bolivia, about 3,811 metres above sea level, making it the highest commercially navigable lake in the world. By volume of water, it is also the largest lake in South America.
After early breakfast you make your way to Lake Titicaca’s pier and boat to the Uros floating Islands. Titicaca is notable for a population of pre-Incan people called Uros, who live on artificial islands made of floating reeds called totora. They have been living on the lake for hundreds of years and were forced to take up residence on the floating islands, when the Incas expanded onto their land. The Uros use the totora reed, which is plentiful along the edges of the lake, to make their homes, furniture, boats and the islands they live on. Their boats are shaped like canoes but with animal heads at the prow. These islands have become a major tourist attraction, drawing excursions from the lakeside city of Puno. The Uros make their living from fishing and from selling their handicrafts to the many tourists that visit these islands. You will have an opportunity to meet and spend some time with the local families living on these islands. They are very friendly and extremely creative, so feel free to purchase their wares. At the right time, you will bid the families’ farewell and continue with the boat trip along Lake Titicaca to Taquile Island. |
TAQUILE ISLAND
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Whilst on Taquile Island, you will explore the less touristy and more scenic part of it. You will experience a ceremony with Jorge Luis here and enjoy a traditional lunch (included in the tour price), before departure and return to Puno. You can bring your bathing suite along for a swim, weather permitting.
Once back in Puno, you transfer to your hotel where the rest of the evening is at leisure. Dinner is for your own account. Overnight at 3* Taypikala Lago Hotel, Chucuito on a Lunch, Bed & Buffet Breakfast basis |
DAY 12 - SUNDAY 18th DECEMBER 2016
AJAYU MARKA
Ajayu Marka or the “Abode of Spirits” is situate is near the multi-dimensional doorway of Aramu Muru on the road from Puno to Copacabana.
This is a spectacular site with sandstone rock formations in the shapes of animals, human profiles and mythical creatures. Here you will walk on Mother Earth’s body towards Aramu Muru and experience this magnificent site and its ancient wisdom held within these marvellous rock formations, which are truly “out of this world”! |
ARAMU MURU
From Ajayu Marka you make your way to “Puerta de Hayu Marka”. In the early 1990’s, Journey Leader Jorge Luis Delgado was exploring the Peruvian countryside, when he came across an area where the rock had been smoothed to a flat surface and adorned with a small alcove. Since its rediscovery, the doorway has become known as the multi-dimensional gateway, Aramu Muru. This gateway has long been regarded by the local people as a “gateway to the lands of the gods” and it is located between Puno and the Bolivian Border.
This is a place of power and you will spend some time here connecting to Aramu Muru’s amazing energy. |
MOLLOKO CHULLPAS
If time permits, you will visit the Molloko Chullpas, located on the slopes of a hill just three kilometres from the town of Accra. This visit will depend completely on how long we spend at the other two sites above.
The Molloko Chullpas are from pre-Inca times and dates back from 800 to 1400 AD. This settlement was possibly built by Lupaka culture, although it should be mentioned that there is influence of the Inca culture, especially in funerary structures that were possibly built during the Inca settlement in the area, between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This was a sacred initiation site. Lunch and dinner is for your own account. Overnight at 3* Taypikala Lago Hotel, Chucuito on a Bed & Buffet Breakfast basis |
DAY 13 - MONDAY 19 DECEMBER 2016
SILLUSTANI
This is the last site that you will visit together as a group. You leave the hotel after breakfast and travel off the beaten track along a scenic route, to visit one of the archaeological gems of the Altiplano, Sillustani. It is located on a peninsula next to Lake Umayu. Sillustani was built around XIII century and is one of the most amazing places within this territory. This place of power is not only recognised for its beauty, but also for its great significance and considerable importance by the Kolla people, a civilization that occupied the area before the Inca domination. They preserved the sacred character of this site as a ceremonial memorial centre.
Later the Incas took this site and built more towers and Chullpas and increased the number of monuments of their own making, which they left behind as evidence of their presence in this region. These Chullpas were the resting places of the important people of that time. Afterwards you return to your hotel for lunch (for your own account). Once lunch is over there is a closing ceremony at the hotel. You will have the rest of the afternoon at leisure. In the evening you join Linda for your farewell dinner, included in the tour price. Overnight at 3* Taypikala Lago Hotel, Chucuito on a Bed & Buffet Breakfast basis |
DAY 14 - TUESDAY 20 DECEMBER 2016
TRANSFER TO JULIACA AIRPORT
Today we say goodbye to new friends and Peru. After breakfast and around mid-morning, you will transfer to Juliaca airport and return to Lima to meet our international connections. This transfer is included in your tour package.
Please book your flights to leave Juliaca around midday and ensure that your connecting flights from Lima gives you enough time from arrival to departure. Should you wish to stay on in Puno or Lima for a few days, we can assist you with extra accommodation on request. As we bid you goodbye, we know that the effects of this tour will last for many years to come! |
FLIGHT INFORMATION
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In many cases, it is more cost effective to book your domestic flight requirements in conjunction with your long haul flights. Please note the suggested airlines and flight times, to ensure that you travel within the group timing parameters. See domestic flight information below.
For those not working with a travel agent our service providers in Peru are able to assist with domestic flights where necessary. Please indicate your interest at time of booking. Flight costs change on a daily basis in Peru and will be confirmed once secured. An indication of the 2 flights needed is between US$ 340 and US$ 500 per person depending on airline, routing and time of booking. Once the domestic flight tickets are purchased, cancellations are not accepted by the airlines. Changes are dependent on availability and a penalty will be charged for this. You can also book your flights online. See the links below to the various airlines. |
DOMESTIC FLIGHTS NEEDED
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1. Lima to Cusco: 7 December 2016. Please book your flight between 8.00 and 11.00 so you arrive in Cusco by midday for transfer to the hotel.
2. Juliaca Airport to Lima: 20 December 2016. The journey ends with an airport transfer to Juliaca Airport mid-morning. Please book your flights to leave from midday onwards. For those wishing to return to Cusco after the journey, we can arrange road transportation for approximately US$ 75 per person extra. Suggested Airlines: Lima / Cusco Latam Airlines Star Peru Taca / Avianca Airlines Peruvian Airlines Juliaca, Puno / Lima Latam Airlines Taca / Avianca Airlines |
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ADDITIONAL SPECIFIC TERMS & CONDITIONS
A full list of Linda Jordaan Tours general terms and conditions is available below. Additional specific terms and conditions relating to this tour are as follows:
A full list of Linda Jordaan Tours general terms and conditions is available below. Additional specific terms and conditions relating to this tour are as follows:
- This tour involves a fair amount of walking and climbing up and down stairs, so good health and a medium fitness level is required.
- To secure your place, a deposit of US$ 1 000 is due at time of reservation. The full tour cost is due by the 1 September 2016. For bookings made after 1 September 2016, full payment will be required at the time of booking and is subject to availability.
- To ensure comfort and enjoyment, this tour accommodates a maximum of 20 people. Please note that we require minimum numbers for this tour to operate. Should the minimum number of participants not be reached, we will re-cost the journey based on the number of confirmed participants. If the confirmed participants choose not to accept the new costing, the journey will be cancelled or postponed and a full refund of the payment received (less bank charges) will be given.
- The tour has been costed in US Dollars as all expenses are in the same currency. This protects our clients from currency fluctuations and hedged conversion rates. Please note that actual bank rates on the day of payment will apply if you are paying in a different currency.
- Payment may be made by direct bank transfer or by credit card via PayPal. Credit card payments via PayPal will be subject to a 5% admin surcharge.
- Individuals are responsible for their own personal medical, travel, baggage and flight insurance. Personal items, such as jackets, cameras, purses or daypacks, etc. are the sole responsibility of the owner. We strongly recommend tour participants take out personal travel insurance.
- Cancellations after payment of the deposit or balance must be in writing and are subject to the following penalties:
- The full deposit is forfeited for cancellations received after 1 September 2016
- 46 – 60 days prior to the tour date, 25% of the tour price is forfeited
- 31 – 45 days prior to the tour date, 50% of the tour price is forfeited
- Less than 30 days of tour date and no shows – 100% of the tour price is forfeited
- Cancellations fees may not be set off against any other tour we offer
For more information and/or to book your place
Contact Linda
Closing date for this tour is 1 October 2016
Contact Linda
Closing date for this tour is 1 October 2016
