The overall plan for the journey was impeccable, leaving me totally available for an extraordinary journey. To capture the essence of this profound journey in words is difficult, when all I really want to do is savor, to feel, to remember, to hold these experiences in my heart. It was an amazing, life-changing, unforgettable two weeks. What You Should Know You need to be comfortable walking and hiking in high altitudes, and many of the temples are up steep stone steps. This journey includes two nights of camping.
Optional hikes are available for more daring hikers.
Most people are content to live on the land and they know this sea only as it appears to them from their own shores. But it is possible to know it fully, to navigate the sea, to cross it, to immerse yourself to let it wash over you, to discover its depths. The Shaman is one who has learned how to swim and how to sail, how to navigate through this sea and return to its shores. Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. is a psychologist and anthropologist trained in classical Inca shamanism. In the early 1500s, a select company of Incas fled the iron fist of the conquest and took refuge in snow-covered passes 17,000 feet high in the Andes.