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 CUSCO-PISAQ-OLLANTAYTAMBO    

Day 8 --OCT. 12 --Sunday

Morning motor coach from Cusco 
through the Sacred Valley of the 
Incas to the Pisaq Market, 
a regional market, 
where the Quechua Indians gather 
to sell and trade their 
hand-made products and produce.
Alpaca sweaters, ponchos, rugs, 
ceremonial artifacts, pottery 
and jewelry are real bargains.
At the southern end of the Sacred Valley,
Pisac's ruins form an enormous condor
on the mountainside. 

Lunch @ El Maizal (Outdoor buffet)

On to Ollantaytambo,
House of the Dawn/Wind, 
one of the most powerful astronomical complexes,
is built at electromagnetic convergence points.
At the northern end of the Sacred Valley,
Ollantaytambo has a special spirit about it.
The legend goes that a white bearded God,
Wiracocha, 
entered the town and blessed the people.
They so honored him, that they carved 
his face in the mountainside,
where you can see it today. 
Purification and cleansing at the 
multidimensional sacred fountains 
and ceremony at the Temple of the Condor
to ask for permission,
protection and guidance as we enter the
"Hanaq Pacha" (upper world). 
The Condor or "Apu Kuntur" 
was considered a very special divinity 
that connects the 
"Hanaq Pacha" ( upper world ) 
with the "Kay Pacha" (middle world). 
Late afternoon arrival in Yucay 
for an overnight stay at the most 
paradisiacal lodging in the Sacred Valley.

                                     

(BB & L)   Overnight Posada del Inka, Yucay

Machu Picchu.

Day 9 --- OCT.13 --- Monday

After breakfast we begin our 
“pilgrimage” 
to the holy city of Machu Picchu.
We transfer to Ollanta Station, 
board the train for a ride 
through the sacred mountains, 
following the route of the 
Vilcanota-Urubaba River 
to the town below Machu Picchu, 
Aguas Calientes.
We check in our hotel and embark on 20 min.
Bus ride up to Machu Picchu.
The summit of
"Machu Picchu" (Old Mountain), 
overlooks the deep canyon of the
Urubamba river in a semi-tropical area
at 7,000 feet above sea level. 
The complex covers approximately 5 square kms.,
sits on a mountain site of extraordinary beauty,
in the middle of a tropical mountain forest.
Machu Picchu's unusual patterns are best
viewed from the sky. 
Its celestial observatory depicts many patterns
found on petroglyphs throughout the world. 
Machu Picchu is an amazing creation,
with its giant walls, 
terraces and ramps, 
which appear as though they have been cut
naturally in the continuous rock escarpments.
Rediscovered in 1911 by the American Yale
professor Hiram Bingham, 
it is thought to have been a sanctuary 
or temple inhabited by high priests and the 
"Virgins of the Sun" (chosen women).
Excavations revealed that of the 135 skeletons
found,109 were women. 
You're finally here among the sacred 
Apus (Mountain Spirits)
and the clouds on top of the world. 
The ancient energies of transformation
welcome you, 
as you let go of your worldly concerns.
The most surprising discovery at the 
abandoned ruins of Machu Picchu is that 
it is not dead at all. 

Machu Picchu is a living "Initiation Center".

The power points and energy sites are still 
very much alive and accessible. 
We have a wonderful outdoor buffet lunch
at the base of the ruins and embark on 
a guided archeo~spiritual tour of the 
entire temple complex with time to 
meditate and align ourselves with energies
and ley lines of this 
Holy Consecrated Ancestral Space.

(BB & L) Overnight Machu Picchu El Pueblo Hotel

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