CHEAP TRAVEL - LAKE TITICACA ITINERARY S

~ Lake Titicaca and 21,000 ft. Mt. Illampu

Here is an example of a popular, cheap travel itinerary: 15 Day Lake Titicaca and Pachamama ESTIMATED TOTAL $1,200 double ocupancy - $1,450 Single

Most hotels will be providing a light breakfast. Your meals are provided when in Chuquito and on the Island Amantani. The ceremonies are optional, at your extra cost. - Despacho (ceremony of Offering to the Mother) Cusco $7 - guide optional $8 per hour - Incenso ceremony Copacabana $5 - guide optional - Despacho with guide Chuquito $100. At the same time with a coca leaf reading $5 - Despachos with guide and overnights Islands of Sun and Moon $250 The island ceremonies cost so much because we have to get our guide up from La Paz and she stays 3 days. Otherwise our local contact can just meet with you and help you out some around Copacabana. As you are with the guides they will be advising you of the area's options. You can request ceremonies then. Naturally the further in advance you make these requests the better the chances the best people will be available. The guides will share about 2 hours with you in each place. You can request more time with them at $8 per hour. 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 BANDANNA. Your guide will take you to Mira Flores in the nicer part of the city. You’ll stay one night at the Hotel Patio (51 Peru-1) 444-4884 If you would like, change $20 or so in the airport while waiting for your bags, just so you'll have a little pocket cash. In Cusco the next morning your guide will change money with you, usually at a much better rate than airports or anywhere else. IMPORTANT: Air travel to South America often experiences delays, missed connections are not uncommon. Carry our contact number with you. Sacred Heritage coordinators, Janet Cisneros (51Peru-1) 980-129-686 and Feli Flores (51Peru-1) 997-254-236 Day 2: In the morning your Lima guide will return with you to the airport. The flight time will depend on the best price we find. From Cusco you'll go with a guide in a local collective car for a 2hr drive down to the Urubamba Valley and the train station in the very Andean village of Ollantaytambo. Your guide will: - Introduce you to your Ollanta guide and contact - Show you where your Ollanta hotel is for when you return. It would be best from there to just take a 2night bag to Machu Picchu and store the bulk of your stuff in Ollanta. Your walks to the hotels in Aguas Calientes and Ollanta will be about 1/2Km (1/4mile). - Then your guide will buy your ticket with you for the ruins in Ollanta and around Cusco - Tell you how to get to your Machu Picchu hotel - Tell you how to get up to the ruins and give you the $50 it takes for the bus and entrance - Give you your train tickets and go to the station with you. So then you'll catch the 2hr Backpacker train to Machu Picchu. Below the ruins, down by the river, you stay in Aguas Calientes, a great little tropical fiesta village. Here you'll be two nights at Hotel Mistico 51/ 84) 984-887-893

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) ~ 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 (your extra cost), 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 you up the Urubamba River to Ollantaytambo. You will stay 1night at the K'uychi Punko (51-84) 250-982 Day 5: You'll have the morning to enjoy the village and the megalithic ruins known to have been a landing pad of the ancient ones, a pre-cataclysmic power spot.

~ Ollantaytambo pre-Inca megalithic ruins

Then in the afternoon the Ollanta guide will get you to a collective car going to Cusco and make contact with the Cusco guide to be ready to meet you. The guide there will get you to your room very close to the main plaza, a plaza with a tradition of celebration going back many thousands of years. There you can immerse yourself in the strong energies of the nightly fiesta of Cusco. The Cusco guide will tell you about many the options for your choice, the Cusco arqueological ticket bought on on your first day will get you into many places. There you will stay two nights quite near the plaza at the hostal Resbalosa (51-84) 24-0461 Day 6: Cusco. Option of shamanic ceremony for $10 per person - guide optional $8 per hour. ~ Machine like Q'enko

Day 7: You will leave in the 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. You stay three nights at La Cupula Tel( 59 Bolivia 12) 862- 2140. ~ Copacabana, Bolivia. A sacred site dedicated to honoring the Divine Mother at Lake Titicaca

Day 8: An easy day, if you wish you 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 (optional $5). There is also great shopping for Bolivian crafts in Copacabana. ~ Ceremony of Insenso going up in smoke

OPTIONAL Island ceremonies $250 - our guide can come to be 3days with you. First for a ceremony and a night on the Island of the Sun. Then the next day a private boat would take you to the Island of the Moon for the same, a night and a ceremony. The Island of the Moon and the Temple of the Priestesses is one of our planet’s most powerful centers of feminine energy, with energies eminently effective and available. You will stay the night at our traveler’s home with the island family who are the keepers of the temple, all food provided on the island of the Moon. 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.

~ View from Island of the Moon

In the evening you will be in the Temple of the Priestesses for the ceremony of ‘Offering to the Mother’. Doing this on the Island of the Moon, in the Mother Lake, with Grandmother Hilaria is to be steeped in FEMININE energies, most massive and profound! ~ Temple of the Priestesses, Island of the Moon

Day 9: If you haven't opted for the island ceremonies daily boat tours are available for about $10 to visit the Islands of the Sun and the Moon. ~ Grandmother Hilaria

Day 10: From Copacabana you leave for a 3-hr drive returning to Peru Then you go to stay in Chucuito, Peru, an old and traditional village above a large bay. For those who choose coca leaf psychic readings will be offered. You stay two nights at Las Cabañas… Peru(51-54) 35-1276.

Day 10: From Copacabana you leave for a 3-hr drive returning to Peru. Then you go to stay in Chucuito, Peru, an old and traditional village above a large bay. You stay two nights at Las Cabañas: (51Peru-54) 35-1276. Day 11: Your meals are provided here The $100 ceremony option here is with 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 have quite often resulted in dramatic life changes and answers to prayers. For those who choose coca leaf psychic readings will be offered. ~ Divining by reading the coca leaves

Day 12: Your meals are provided here In the morning you will leave for Puno and a 4-hr boat ride to the Island Amantani. Amantani is a wonderfully traditional island with no roads or electricity, thus again candlelight and washcloths. You will stay two nights in rooms prepared in the homes of native families. We will send you with an Island native guide that speaks Spanish; the $100 option would be to also send you with an English speaking guide.

Day 13: After breakfast you can climb to two extremely old temples, one dedicated to the Divine Mother, Pachamama and the other to the Divine Father, Pachatata. Day 14: After an early breakfast you boat back to the mainland to stay one night in Puno at the Hostel Uros (51-51) 352-141 Day 15: From Puno your guide will get you to your afternoon flight to Lima- or whatever else you may choose, perhaps more days of adventure we can set you up with, where ever you end up the local guide will get you to your included flight back to Lima and give you the $30 Lima airport international departure tax.

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