Peru Odyssey begins with a retreat at Gaia Tree Center in the Amazon rainforest. You’ll get to experience 4 life-changing ayahuasca ceremonies with authentic indigenous shamans. Ayahuasca is a potent visionary plant medicine that has been used by many indigenous cultures of the Amazon rainforest for thousands of years. For many of these tribes, Ayahuasca is central to their culture, revealing to mankind its role in the universe and the true nature of reality.

Working with ayahuasca is an intense, profound, and usually an incredibly transformative experience that can facilitate deep healing on all levels of your being – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

After leaving the jungle we head to the city of Cusco, high in the majestic Andes mountains. Mountains are powerful energy centers with their own spirits (Apus) and you’ll soon come to understand why there were revered by both the ancients and the indigenous of today.

Cuzco is a strange and beautiful city in a stunning location. Surrounded on all sides by the majestic Andes mountains, you can never get bored of exploring its nooks and crannies, ancient cobble-stone streets, Inca ruins and other places of great interest.

Pisac is a traditional and rustic village nestled in the Sacred Valley with extraordinary ancient terraces lacing the overlooking mountains. Situated close by the Urubamba river Pisac is world famous for its artisan market that is open daily. Pisac has also attracted a burgeoning community of western healers and mystics flocking to its particular vibrancy to run yoga retreats and many other healing modalities.

High above Pisac, on top of the nearest mountain is another spectacular Inca ruin that you’ll visit and explore.

After leaving Pisac we’ll travel through the length of the sacred valley to the ancient Inca village of Ollantaytambo (pronounced O-Yan-Tay-Tambo). On the way, we’ll stop at a spectacular site called Moray which was a giant agricultural laboratory.

On the edge of the village, sweeping up the mountain-side is another incredible Inca Ruin which would probably be world-famous itself if Machu Picchu didn’t exist. The view from the top of the ruins, about two hundred massive steps up, is breath-taking and we will again find evidence that at least part of the structure was by built an advanced civilization far more ancient than the Incas.

Experiencing Machu Picchu is one of the main reasons many people are drawn to visit Peru, and it doesn’t disappoint.

Machu Picchu is truly a mystical and enigmatic place many of us have dreamed of experiencing, and yet however you imagined it to be, the reality will be far more intense and extraordinary. The view over the ruins of the citadel is as iconic as the image of Earth from space but when you stand above it as the sun creeps over the nearby peaks to light these ancient walls and terraces foot by foot you will be stunned to silence. Nothing can prepare you for the impact of seeing this extraordinary ‘crystal city’ emerge from the shadows of the dawn and your dreams.

After leaving Machu Picchu we then head to Lake Titicaca for the final leg of the adventure. Lake Titicaca is another of Peru’s many natural wonders. At 3800m above sea level, it is the highest navigable body of water in the world. It is a place that is rich in history, myth, and mysticism. Some say it is the location of the Earth’s second chakra. According to Incan mythology, their first king Manco Capac was born here.

You’ll spend 5 nights in total at Lake Titicaca. You’ll visit the mysterious site of Amaru Meru (some say it’s a portal to another dimension, and then you will spend 2 nights on the Island of Amantani.