Everything here is included in your rate. The week has its own rhythm, and these are the moments that shape it.
Despacho, the Opening Offering
The week opens with a despacho, an offering to the earth led by the shamans who have worked this land for years. You build it together. Coca leaves, seeds, flowers, and other things the earth gives back are arranged into a bundle while the shaman speaks over it in Quechua, the language the Incas left behind. Each person adds something of their own and says what they came here carrying. Then it is offered. This is not a performance for guests. It is how things are still done in these mountains, and it sets the ground for everything that follows in the week.
Machu Picchu
Some places hold a charge you feel before you understand it, and Machu Picchu is one of them. This full-day experience begins before sunrise with a scenic train ride through the Andes to the ancient Inca citadel, where you'll explore its terraces and temples with a local guide. Throughout the journey, you'll be invited to slow down, connect with the landscape, and take in the history and spirit of this extraordinary place. The excursion includes transportation, train, entrance fees, a guided tour, and lunch. Please note that yoga is not offered on Machu Picchu day.
Pisac
A morning in Pisac, a town at the eastern end of the Sacred Valley where the market runs daily in the center. Families come down from the mountain villages to sell what they weave and make, so the textiles, ceramics, and produce on the tables came from the hills visible from the stalls. We drop you in town and the time is yours. Shop, wander the side streets, sit somewhere for coffee, or find lunch at one of the local spots. We collect you as a group. Plan on about 3.5 hours total. Includes transportation, a spiritual guide, and lunch in Aguas Calientes.
Maras and Moray
A guided day at two of the valley's strangest and most beautiful sites. Moray is a set of enormous circular terraces cut down into the earth, each ring holding a slightly different temperature. The Incas are believed to have used it to test which crops could grow where, which makes it something like an agricultural laboratory built five hundred years ago and still legible. Maras is thousands of salt pools stepped down a hillside, fed by an underground spring that has run salt since before the Incas. The families who work them have held the same pools for generations. In the light it reads as white and pink geometry against a brown mountain. Easy walking. This is the day people photograph most.
Tree Planting
An afternoon on the property with your hands in the soil. You plant a tree in the ground at Samadhi, in a valley where the forest has been thinned by generations of farming and fire. It stays after you leave. Small ritual and a long memory. It takes about an hour and something sacred you can leave for your great grandchildren.
Pumahuanca
The trek is for those who want to earn the view. The trail climbs from the valley floor through forest into the high country above Urubamba, following a stream up to an Inca temple site most visitors never reach. It is quiet up there in a way the rest of the valley is not. This is intermediate to advanced, and the altitude makes it honest work. You do not need to be an athlete, but you do need to want it. Anyone who would rather stay back has a full day at Samadhi with the pool and the property to themselves.
Optional Excursions Not Included
Massages and bodywork, facials and skin treatments, pottery with local artisans, cooking classes, horseback in the valley, and spiritual offerings.
