Yoga Journey to Machupichu

Day-by-Day Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival to Lima

Upon you arrival to Lima, you will be met and transported to your hotel in Lima, where you will spend a well-deserved overnight stay. * Depending on the time of arrival, an extra, overnight in Lima can be added upon request.

Day 2: Flight to Cusco & Sacsayhuaman, Quenqo & Tambomachay Tour & Setting the intentions Yoga session (B)

After breakfast at your hotel in Lima, you will once again return to the airport in order to catch your short, one-hour flight to the city of Cusco. Once you arrive in Cusco, you will be met by one of our representatives who will accompany you, and escort you to your Cusco Hotel. After lunch, you will take a tour to Sacsayhuaman, this is where Inti Raymi, the Festival of the Sun, is held during the Summer Solstice. Some of the stones used to build the site weigh up to 70 tons yet are fitted so precisely–without the use of mortar–that one cannot slide even the thinnest object between them. Some believe that the site forms the head of puma or jaguar and that the huge triangulated walls form its teeth, or symbolize lightening. Next, at Tambomachay, the Temple of the Sacred Waters is another site we will visit and is a marvel of hydraulic engineering. Its waters still flow today. Also, at Q´enqo we’ll see the remains of a ceremonial site used for fertility rites and for celebrations of the solstice and equinox. At the conclusion of your tour, you will have a delicious and nutritious lunch. After lunch, you will take your first yoga session: “Setting the intention” workshop. For this class, we will set our intentions for the trip in regards of yoga.  You will experience new ways of practice yoga and renovate your energy gathering new positive thoughts throughout each of these wonderful spiritual sites. We will talk about what yoga and meditation means for each of us and introduce the basics principles of Pranayama a technique that will enhance, facilitate and reinforce your practice or hiking in this high altitude city.  This will greatly help you in the next few days. Light yoga practice will follow, this will allow the teacher gauge your level since you will be practicing yoga in the altitude and in this way lead you through the next days. The session will be sure to invigorate you and provide you with a special form of enlightenment. * Yoga & Meditation at sites depend on availability of the site at the time of arrival. Depending on the time of the year, sites may be crowded and we will have to adapt. There also may be people around watching and you may experience some noise. This will be a 20-30 minutes maximum practice and not a class, since it is very difficult to teach a class under these conditions. Each member should carry their yoga mat, since yoga mats will not be provided.

Day 3: Yoga Workshop & Walking City Tour (B, L)

After breakfast at your hotel in Cusco, you will be picked-up and taken to your Yoga workshop. Alignment Yoga Workshop: Our yoga teacher uses a fusion of Asthanga and Anusara resulting in a mixed of spirituality and strength.  Through this practice, you will learn about the balance between the physical and the spiritual, the freedom and the discipline, the expansive with contractive, the action and rest, the individuality and collective. After your Yoga workshop, you will break for lunch at one of Cusco’s “Green” restaurants, for a delicious organic lunch. At the conclusion of your tour, you will walk back to your hotel (a short walk), in order to prepare for your walking city-tour of Cusco. On this walking tour, we will begin by visiting the city’s Spanish Colonial architecture, that both overlays and is interlaced with the earlier Incan architecture. We walk Cusco’s impressive Plaza de Armas and visit both the Spanish cathedral and Incan temple of the sun, Qoricancha. The Spanish conquistadores destroyed significant portions of the Inca civilization while leaving their mark on Cusco. Ornate cathedrals, adobe walls, carved balconies, hidden courtyards and cobblestone streets add to the historic richness of the ancient Incan capital. Cusco is a city filled with shops and interesting things to do, all at walking distance, so you will be able to explore it all at your own pace. * An extra day in Cusco can be added upon request. Please let us know if you like us to add additional activities. Vegetarian & Vegan options are available.

Day 4: Visit to Pisac Ruins & Yoga, Pisac Market and Ollantaytambo Fortress Tour (B,L)

After breakfast at your hotel, you will be met, and taken on your Pisac Ruins Tour. Pisac was the largest fortress-city complex of the Incas and was one of the largest in ancient America. Our spiritual guide will lead you through the site starting at the sacred bathing area, where you will find a several baths that are feed from a series of adjoining water ducts. Adjacent to the baths on the side of a small valley, you will see ancient Incan burial tombs. Thousands of small holes dug neatly into the hillside form one of the largest burial sites ever found, where skeletal remains were found in the fetal position along with gifts or payments to the earth. Finally, you will get to the upper sector of the Pisac Ruins where you will find the spiritual and sacred Temple of the Sun. You will learn about the exquisite stonework that forms a series of structures considered one of the most important Inca sites and are equal to anything at Machu Picchu. The Temple of the Sun, which surrounds a natural large rock, points directly towards a solitary high peak several hundred yards ahead, this is where we will take a moment to enjoy the incredible views that this remote peak offers. From here, we will walk through a small citadel, which forms the lower sector of the ruins, before continuing along a winding path and down to Pisac village. At this point of the tour, you will prepare for your yoga session, right on site. Your session will include guidance from a top Yoga instructor, and will be accessible for any person, regardless of level of experience. At the conclusion of your yoga session, you will continue on for a visit to the Pisac market.

The Pisac market has a wide variety of artisan arts & crafts and you will have the chance to see the many different products that the sacred valley produces. This is a great opportunity to for you to do some unique shopping, and to purchase souvenirs for your family and friends. After the market, you will break for lunch at one of the local restaurants in the Sacred Valley, to enjoy a delicious lunch. At the conclusion of lunch, you will continue on your Ollantaytambo fortress tour. You will get the chance to visit the Inca town of Ollantaytambo, still inhabited by the locals in much the same way as it was during the time of the Incas. The lodging area is formed by complex structures known as “canchas” or apartments. The Incas built a temple on a terraced site above the town. The impressive, standing stones they erected, conjure up images of Atlantis. This is the site where Manco Inca and his warriors staged a temporary victory over the Spanish Conquistadors, led by Francisco Pizarro. During this victory, the Inca warriors flooded the fields, while raining down spears and arrows from above, making it difficult for the Spanish horses to maneuver, ultimately forcing a rare retreat on the part of the Conquistadors. * Yoga & Meditation at sites depend on availability of the site at the time of arrival. Depending on the time of the year, sites may be crowded and we will have to adapt. There also may be people around watching and you may experience some noise. This will be a 20-30 minutes maximum practice and not a class, since it is very difficult to teach a class under these conditions. Each member should carry their yoga mat, since yoga mats will not be provided. Vegetarian & Vegan lunch options are available.

Day 5: Machu Picchu with Optional Yoga in Machupichu (B)

After an early breakfast at your Aguas Calientes hotel, we catch the bus for the short ride up switchbacks, to the Machu Picchu citadel overhead. We enter the ruins for a breathtaking view of the city in the sky. You will enjoy a full tour of the lost city and have lunch on your own after the tour. In the afternoon, you will return back down to the base-town of Aguas Calientes, where you will return to your hotel for the remainder of the evening. *You can add a Yoga session in Machupichu if you like, please let us know if you like to add this option

Day 6: Machu Picchu at your leisure & Back to Cusco (B, S)

After breakfast at your hotel in Aguas Calientes, you will once again, head up to Machu Picchu via switch-backs, to enjoy the full day up in the citadel at your leisure. This Free day at your leisure will provide you with many optional activities: You could Trek to the Sun gate or Hike HuaynaPicchu, shop in the market, go to the spring water, among many others; the choice is all yours. At the conclusion of your free day, you will take the bus back down to Aguas Calientes, and ultimately catch your train back to the train station in Poroy, where once you arrive; our representative will be waiting to escort you directly to your hotel in Cusco. * There are two schedule times for the HuaynaPicchu Hike in MachuPicchu and has an extra cost of US$12.00 per person. Please let us know if you are interested so we can arrange your hike in advance. Please see note below.

Day 7: Back to Lima & Amazon Fusion lunch & Lima City Tour & Restorative Yoga Session (B, L)

After breakfast at your hotel in Cusco, you will be met by one of our representatives, who will escort you back to the airport in Cusco, in order to catch your short, one-hour flight back to the capital city of Lima. Once you arrive in Lima, you will be met, and taken directly to your hotel in Lima. For lunch today, you are in for a treat, as we will take you to one of Lima’s best restaurants, for a specially-prepared, Amazon fusion lunch at Malabar. Chef Pedro Miguel Scchiafino prepares Peruvian Fusion with jungle ingredients. He was the first chef in Peru to introduce ingredients from the Amazon and include them in fusion dishes that enhance and show its flavours. At the conclusion of lunch, you will embark on your tour of the city of Lima. On the City Tour, we will see the Spanish city Square and get a snapshot of the most important city sites. Sites to be visited: Main Square, The Cathedral, Government Palace, City Hall, San Francisco Monastery (including catacombs), old streets with colonial houses, and a great driving tour through beautiful San Isidro and Miraflores. After your tour, you will end your day with a Gentle or restorative Yoga Workshop: A relaxing practice aimed at bringing the body into greater balance.  This class will give you an “active relaxation.” We will stimulate and relax the body to move toward balance. Some poses have an overall benefit, others target an individual part.  You will fill your  body with energy. Finish with a guided Meditation* Please let us know if you like to add an extra day in Lima, extra activities or meals. Vegetarian & Vegan options are available.

Day 8: Morning Yoga Session + Spa day + Back to the airport and connect with flight home (B)

After breakfast at your hotel, your incredible journey to Peru winds to a close, you will start the morning with your last yoga workshop “Chakra Awareness”:?We will use our yoga practice, as we practice different asanas to stimulate different charkas, remembering what we love and appreciate enhances the power of the poses and our general well-being. The human body contains hundreds of locations where there is concentrated energy and there are seven which are considered major energy centers commonly referred to as ‘chakra’s’. ??Chakra are the centers of force, located within our body, through which we receive, transmit, and process life energies. Each chakra is recognized as a focal point of life force relating to physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energies. The chakra’s are the network through which body, mind, and spirit interact as one holistic system. ?The main purpose in working with, and understanding the chakra’s is to create integration, and wholeness within ourselves. In this way we bring the various aspects of our consciousness, from the physical to the spiritual, into a harmonious relationship. Ultimately, we begin to recognize that the different aspect of ourselves (physical, material, sexual, spiritual, etc.) all work together, and that each aspect is as much a part of the whole as the others. From the yoga class, you will be taken directly to one of Lima’s best spa’s, where you will enjoy a very well-deserved, invigorating time at the spa, your package includes sauna, body exfoliation, body massage, wine therapy, Facial and reflexology (4-hours) prior to your ultimate departure back home. At the conclusion of your spa experience, you will head back to your hotel to pick up your luggage, and taken directly to the airport, to catch your flight back home. *Depending on your preferences, the spa has optional lunches that you can order in between your treatments You can also choose to add services as the spa is also a beauty salon. Depending on your flight time you might need to add an extra day. Please let us know.

NOTE: Some people prefer to go directly to the sacred valley upon arrival to the Cusco Airport. Please let us know if you prefer that to send you an updated itinerary

NOTE FOR YOGA PRACTICIONERS: The yoga classes suggested in this itinerary are standard. However, depending on your level of practice and the style that you are used to, we can change the yoga classes including in this itinerary to fit your specific requirements and needs. Please contact us and we can talk about the options that we have.

Not exactly what you want?

Remember that Magical focuses on providing the best available options and can work with you on customizing your tour to better fit your interests and budget, without compromising the quality of your tour. Just contact us with your questions and preferences and we can modify this tour based on your expectations and requests.

Important Notes:

About MachuPicchu Entrance Tickets

As the popularity of MachuPicchu has increased in the last few years, and in order to preserve the ancient paths of MachuPicchu, the Peruvian Cultural Institute (INC) has restricted the number of people that could enter MachuPicchu to 2,500 people per day. This means that, once the 2,500 tickets are sold out, no further entrance tickets will available. Also, please note that to avoid a secondary market for these tickets, all tickets are issued with the name of the passenger, his/her passport number, nationality and date of birth. Therefore, tickets are non refundable and non transferable.

About Huaynapichu Tickets

Entrance tickets to Huaynapichu are not longer free, entrance tickets are now US$12.00 per person. There are two scheduled visits per day, with a limit of 200 people per visit (Total of 400 per day). If you are interested in hiking the Huaynapichu, we will need you to let us know at the same time you book your trip since the Huaynapichu tickets need to be purchased in conjunction to the MachuPicchu tickets.

Price

This tour (*) is available from:

USD$1419.90 per person – Private Tours with Private Transfers

For single supplement and prices in a private service, please contact us!

* Based on double occupancy, 4 people, Budget Accommodations

IMPORTANT: As price depends on each passenger choices, please contact us to send you an updated price based on your specific request. Please send us the following information and we will respond within 24 hours with your updated price.

• Number of people in your party
• Level of accommodation (3, 4, 5*). Please see options
• Choosing a Private or Group Tour?
• Train choice. Please see options
• Adding options: if you like to add day tours, extra days, meals, etc
• Need domestic or international flights?
• Have a special request (e.g.: special diet, wheelchair, children, senior, etc)

What’s Included?

• Expedition train roundtrip. Upgrade to other trains: Vistadome train, Hiram Bingham Train upon request.
• Bus from Aguas Calientes/Machu Picchu round trip (1st and 2nd day),
• Expert leadership, guides & support personnel for all listed tours
• Accommodations: 2 nights in Lima/ 4 nights in Cusco/ 1 night in Aguas Calientes
• Meals as noted (B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner, S = Snack). We can add any meals upon request
• Land excursions as noted including entrance fees (BTG, Cathedral, Qoricancha, Machu Picchu for 1st and 2nd day, Lima Cathedral & San Francisco Catacombs)
• Private Transportation: Lima Airport/Lima Hotel, Lima Hotel/Lima Airport, Cusco Airport/Cusco Hotel, Cusco Hotel/Train Station/Cusco Hotel, Cusco Hotel/Yoga session, Cusco Hotel/Cusco Airport, Lima Airport/Lima Hotel, Lima hotel/Lima restaurant, Lima Hotel /Yoga session/Day Spa, Lima Hotel/Lima Airport.

What’s Not Included?

• Yoga Mat
• Airport taxes: Local ($5-6) and International ($31) departure tax of payable in local currency by each passenger at Lima International Airport upon departure (if applicable)
• International and domestic airfares, usually quoted separately
• Excess baggage charges
• Insurance of any kind: mandatory evacuation insurance; suggested cancellation insurance, interruption, baggage loss, damage and delay
• Tipping & Gratuities (Guides $4 per person per day / Drivers $1 per person per day)
• Items of a personal nature (clothing, sleeping bags, sodas, liquor, snacks, laundry, etc.)
• Visas. Please be advised that some citizens other than Canadians and US may need visa to travel to Peru. Please advise us of your nationality to help you or check with the Peruvian Consulate.

Domestic Tickets

Lima/Cusco/Lima: From US $190 per person. This is an example price. Prices depend on the airline, date and time of booking.