Travel Details

Flight Arrangements

For your travel arrangements, please consider that the retreats will begin at 8:00am on the first day published and end in the evening (8pm) of the last day.

To book your tickets to Lima, you may want to check:

To buy your local flight tickets Lima – Cusco (60 min flight,) you can choose either:

All commercial airlines with on line service. The average cost of a round trip ticket Lima-Cusco-Lima is ± 120 to 190 US$ (depending on the season). There are no evening flights to Cusco.

Staying more days before or after the retreat?

If you arrive in Lima prior to the retreat may we suggest two comfortable hostals in Miraflores. Both have transportation service from and to the airport (12 US$) and online booking. The cost of a single room is around 30 US$.

Hostal Porta
Porta 686, Miraflores
Phone: (511) 242-0505
www.hostalporta.com

Hotel El Ducado
Juan Fanning 337, Miraflores
Phone: (511) 447-1919
www.elducado.com

Also, if you are planning on staying some days before or after the retreat in Cusco, we can recommend some hotels near the Main Plaza and San Blas.

Hotel Marqueses
Garcilazo 256, Cusco.
Phone: (5184) 264249
www.hotelmarqueses.com

Hostal Rumi Punku
Choquechaca 339, Cusco
Phone: (5184) 22-1102
www.rumipunku.com

If you choose to stay in Pisaq, you can stay at Melissa Wasi, in nearby accomodations or in the town of Pisaq.

Melissa Wasi

  • Suite in a house, 30 US$ person, including breakfast.
  • Simple rooms at 15 US$, not including breakfast but complete shared bathroom and kitchen. No camping options.

If you want to go to Pisaq town (2 km) you can call a taxi (S/. 4 soles ride) or take a 15 minute walk.
The cost of the taxi from Cusco to Pisaq (40 min) is aprox S./ 40 soles (14 US$). Do not pay more.

Visiting Machu Picchu

If you want to visit Machu Picchu,  you can go from Pisaq or Cusco on a two-day, one night trip. The train to Machu Picchu departs from Cusco so you can either:

  • Go to Cusco after the last day of the retreat and take the train the next morning.  Take a taxi (US$25 aprox.) from Pisaq to Ollantaytambo and take the train there on the same day.

In both cases the train goes to the town of Aguas Calientes where you can spend the night and visit Machu Picchu the next morning and return on the same day.

Outdoor activities

If you would like to do some outdoor trekking, or adventure hikes, river rafting or horse riding, you can contact a travel agency to help you organize a tour or excursion after the retreat.

Andrea Cilloniz
www.munaycha.com
Phone: (5184) 977-0108
Specialists in adventure tours.

Vaccines

It is not necessary to have any vaccines to travel to Puerto Maldonado or Cusco. Many countries recommend it as a precautionary measure but in the last eight years there has been no report of malaria or yellow fever in these areas. Moreover the malaria pills have unpleasant side effects on the body.

Weather

We are at 2,800 m. (9,500 ft high) so the air is cool and dry during the night and sunny during the day.

  • Bring warm clothes for the evenings.
  • Bring a hat, sun block and lip balm.
  • Bring a bathing suit for the steam room.
  • Bring rain poncho if you are coming during the rainy season (Dec – Feb).

Notes

  • Only drink bottled water. You can buy it everywhere.
  • Dollar exchange rate: US$ 1 (American dollars) = S./3 (soles).
  • There is an ATM machine available in Pisaq town.
  • Credit cards are normally accepted in hotels, restaurants, and stores in the city of Cusco and Lima but not in Pisaq.
  • Electricity: 220 volts.

In Lima be careful with your personal belongings, camera, video and personal stuff because pickpocket theft is frequent. If possible do not go out with valuable things.

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