~ Maria Charaja
Lake Titicaca Shaman Woman.

INTRODUCTION

Spiritual travel, custom designed, offering only the genuine of indigenous cultural heritage, shamanism,
traditional healing and sacred sites.

Experiential expeditions to Machu Picchu, the Amazon rainforest, Lake Titicaca, Nasca,
Uluru (Ayers rock) Australia and Sedona Arizona, amoung others.

Travel itineraries to enhance your personal growth and expanding consciousness;
love shaped by our own decades of finding healing through spiritual travel.

Through nature, sacred sites, tribal shamanism and traditional healing you are offered the deep sanity imprint of our shared ancestral indigenous cultural heritage.

To support you in finding a way true to you, all we have is only offered, nothing mandatory.
Spiritual travel simple, sincere, genuine & uncontrived.

Not I - not anyone else, can travel that road for you.
You must travel it yourself. -Walt Whitman
But we can sure help you to get it set up!

Your journey can be custom designed for you. What would you like?

• Rainforest, beaches, desert or maybe mighty mountains
• Profound recollections in ancient temples
• The genuine humanity of an old culture
• The inspiration of true lineage elder shamans

All as you will. We are at your service.

More than twenty aboriginal healers of the Australian, Andean and Amazon rainforest cultures are working with Sacred Heritage Travel. In each journey you will visit with the women and men who are the local leaders in their Shamanic lineage of ceremonial therapy and herbal medicine.

These elders, peer authenticated, approved in their own villages, are the real thing . .
unlike the self proclaimed sudden sort'a shamans typical to tourism. Read more about The Tradition Keepers

~ Grandfather Sinchi, a High Andean Shaman, at 104 years old!

Please come... These journeys have been created by their request. It is they who have issued your invitation and our visits have been a strong part of their recent cultural revitalization as our interest has given the people new pride in their heritage. For more info on the healers go through our Journey Choices.

There are those of you who will want to come but don't really care for healing or ceremony and that's all right, they are merely being offered; nothing is mandatory. The genuine cultural contact, the lands and the ruins also make these journeys a worthy adventure.

Archeological Heritage

Naturally each journey to Peru goes to Machu Picchu, as well as other lesser known but equally magnificent megalithic (gigantic stone) ruins that the area is so rich in. The stupendous stone-works are evidence of highly advanced, long ago civilizations.

~ Lake Titicaca dimensional portal linked to the temple of the ancient ascended ones

~ Megalithic ruins at Sacsaywaman, Cusco

The histories of ancient ages, as given by old cultures through out the world, had been dismissed as mere myth. But now much evidence is surfacing supporting the knowledge of our ancestral heritage in an expanded history stretching back of tens of thousands of years. The sacred sites we visit figure prominently in the deep roots of continuing indigenous worship and point to the times the children of the "gods" walked the earth. See more at Expanded History. You will experience these sacred sites with the people still living the traditions of the land.

Travel With the People - For the People ~ Spread the Wealth

- The way of Tao is to fill that which is empty
- The more you give the more life abounds
Tao Teh Ching Chapters 22 & 81

Natural soul satisfaction - This is an invitation to share in love's flow. The many jobs created by our journeys are spread to as many indigenous villagers as possible, supporting the native peoples in their homes and traditional life styles.

~ Megalithic ruins of Sacsaywaman in Cusco

When journeying with the people you are offered the opportunity to participate in their daily life. Throughout our travels professional licensed guides also accompany us, for their help in translation and information. The available handicrafts are of great beauty and excellent quality. Many are unique to the villages we visit. You can buy art works and crafts directly from the people who made them as we hang out in their homes. While you have supported the continuation of their artistic heritage, the connection you carry back to your home is such a treasure.Experience for yourself the warm welcome received in each village as we visit the natives of our extended family. You will be in the homes and share the traditional meals with the people of these wonderfully intact cultures, well beyond the plastic curtain of typical tourism. See: Third World Simplicity

~ Rita Quispe on Amantani Island, Lake Titicaca.

Over 70% of the money paid to Sacred Heritage for these journeys stays in the lands we visit.

Over 30% of that money goes directly to the well over 100 indigenous villagers and native healers that assist our travels.

True Cultural and Ecological Travel
Until our transportation catches up with this age of information, as in geo-friendly fuels or propulsion, our plane, train and road travel is adding huge amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere. A group called Climate Care based in the UK can help us offset our travel pollution. http://www.climatecare.org/. They work with mostly poorer areas not bound by the Kyoto Protocol or local government responsibilities and their diverse projects are monitored and verified for efficacy by an objective third party. We can pay them to fund worldwide projects of renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation that reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the air by the same amount that our travel activities increase it. Working with their chart, I figure that from the States, a donation of just US$40 will offset our South America round trip and in-country travel pollution emissions.

Please consider helping us all in this way as we continue to hope that soon we will advance into clean ways to travel.

Buying local food bypasses a bunch of plastic trash and on all journeys we ask people to filter water and not buy disposable plastic bottles. Small stuff but hey every little bit helps.

Individual Freedom
Many people who journey with us are experienced world travelers and would normally never consider joining a typical tour. One of the reasons why they choose to join our journeys is that, on their own, it would be nearly impossible, in just two weeks, to create the level of deep cultural contacts that we offer.

Another thing that pleases the experienced travelers is that we are not a baby-sitting service and though daily itineraries are offered, individual freedom is highly encouraged.

As you start on the Way, the Way appears
- Rumi

We have been sharing the genuine Andean and Amazon cultures with travelers since 1993. Our South American affiliates, the people of Peru Travel Service in Lima and Cusco, Trek Bolivia in La Paz, Edgar Adventures in Puno, and others have been working in tourism since the 1970's and 80's. Naturally our groups are kept small (otherwise we wouldn't fit in the native family kitchens). We must be doing something right, the bulk of our groups are repeats and personal referrals.

The Western mental-ego is deeply wounded by it's disassociation from earth and body. Many suffer a lack of the meaningful community communion known to tribes and villages. Being natural and wanted our heritage can return quite readily. Simply to be open to its imprinting presence we experience the regenerative strength of nature and the natural telepathy of love. Many of our travelers report experiencing a change hard to describe but their lives are made stronger and more hopeful.

Not that we wish to revert to earlier ways of being, but with our evolutionary wholeness re-integrated,
we are much more available to positive, well grounded growth.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old, seek what they sought.
-Matsuo Basho

The strength flowing through humanity's roots is available for your imprinting, inspiration and nurturing. And then there are all those warm open hearts obvious in so many of the Andean and Amazon people — Oh, their hearts; you've got to come feel it!

~ Paulina of Chinchero village in the high Andes

Sacred Heritage founder Alan Leon's stories of Andean Adventures, Magic and Philosophy

"Seeking the Magician" - Experiences of magic healing with the masters.

"The Magician Found" - Results of the traditional therapy.

"Mama Culture" - Sacred ceremony with Maria, an Aymara Yatiti, Lake Titicaca traditional healer.

"Cross and Condor Aligned in Nasca" - Experiences in the energy grid of the Nasca lines.

"Machu Picchu" - The number one Sacred Site of Peru.

"Monkey Tree Night" - A night stuck in the rain forest swamp, an Amazon initiation.

Alan Leon - a Bit of his history.