DAY 1: CUSCO – MOLLEPATA – HUMANTAY LAGOON – SORAYPAMPA (L,D)
Our spiritual Journey to Apu Salkantay and Mama Humantay will star picking you up from your hotel in Cusco around 6am. We will drive roughly 3.5 hours to our trail head at Soraypampa (12,467 feet). In route to Soraypampa, we will stop in the quaint town of Mollepata to use the bathrooms, have a snack and grab a cup of coffee or tea. After that we are continuing toward to Soraypampa and immediately be over shadowed by the giant, Mountain of Salkantay and important chief spirits of the Incas, from where we will embark on a short 2 to 3 hours day hike to the beautiful Humantay Lake, a breathtaking site of the Andes with turquoise water reflecting the glacier of Humantay mountain
We will hike back to Soraypampa where a delicious meal will be waiting to us with great view of Apu Salkantay and then to enjoy the Deep tranquility of the sacred space of Salkantay.
Note: Optional Huachuma Medicine
This ancestral plant medicine Huachuma, has thousands of years of use in the Andes, supporting dozens of cultures from Colombia all the way through the Andes to northern Argentina and Chile. This medicine is pure unconditional Love, the Love that created the entire Universe and continues to create each day, and the Love that we also are as children of the Universe. This master plant guides us within through the realms of our inner-consciousness and also assists us in the recognition of our place in the Cosmos and the profound connection we have with Mother Earth, bringing us closer to her heart and her embrace and ready to receive all the support and blessings she has for us. It helps us cleanse and heal our imbalances and energetic blockages to manifest greater health and vitality; to liberate through the powerful medicine of forgiveness those experiences from the past that may have caused (or still cause) trauma, pain, and suffering in the present, limiting our true nature to continually reinvent and recreate ourselves each day, living in the pure innocence of the eternal child, in wonder of the miracle of each new dawn. Wachuma acts as a mirror where we may observe our habits, conditionings, and beliefs to see whether or not they really serve us or if we need them, as well as to recognize the limitations of the ego and how to liberate ourselves from its control while bringing deeper clarity and calm into our minds. Through this sacred space and sacred time in ceremony with Wachuma, we return back to Source, back to our origins as pure love, creative potential, and possibility, living in abundance and flourishing and human beings in the dance of creation.
Lodging: Soraypampa home stay.
