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If you are seeking a Self-Guided Journey:
Our Award-winning full color, coffee table guidebook, "Markawasi: Peru's Inexplicable Stone Forest" includes full traveler details on How to Go, Outfitting & Gear, Best Dates of Travel, Maps, Directions, GPS Readings, Accommodations and Amenities, over 300 color photos, maps and drawings, and historical and cultural background necessary for a self-guided, independent journey.
GIFT SET Markawasi Book & DVD $39.95
(plus S&H; worldwide)
If you'd like to JOIN US for our yearly Journey
June 2, 2012:
11 Days: Cusco, Sacred Valley of the Incas, Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, and Lima
5 Days: The Markawasi Stone Forest, San Pedro de Casta, Lima
3 Days: Nazca Lines, Ica Stones, Paracus Ballestas Isles (Peru's little Galapagos)
Reservations
Please click for detailed information on our upcoming
June 2012 Peru Journey, or contact us and include the following:
* Your full name, mailing address, telephone number, and email.
* City of departure, date of travel, and number of passengers.
* Please include a few words about yourself and your interest in Markawasi, and camping at high altitude.
Can't make it next June? we offer private customized tours to Markawasi departing May through October (the dry season), for parties of 5 or more, as well as customized trips year round to most Peruvian destinations including Cuzco and Machu Picchu, the Nazca Lines, Lake Titicaca, and the Amazon Rainforest. Please inquire.
CLICK to read about our upcoming trip, "Journey of the Masters", June 2, 2012, and hear what others are saying!
"Kathy Doore is aptly named, as she opens DOORS of perception into Andean cosmology. Warning: you are in for a lot more than a touristy, sight-seeing trip with Kathy’s tour. You won’t escape feeling deeply touched by the amazing landscape, the fabulous, earthy, and spiritual guides (especially Maru and Vicky), in addition to Kathy, and a very full experience packed into two short weeks. This isn’t an “adventure tour”, but it is quite possibly the MOST amazing adventure of my life, both on a spiritual and experiential level. It is powerful. If you are open to experiencing a living culture that has ancient roots in the amazing Peruvian sky, by all means do whatever you can to GO! It has been two weeks since my return from Peru, and I’m still assimilating the spiritual experiences I had there. They continue to unfold, and I am confident that this is only the beginning. Thank you Kathy for making this spiritual trek possible."
Peggy Bartlett, California, May 2010
A cautionary word about Internet Ads
promoting Tours to Markawasi
Markawasi is a relatively new destination for foreign travelers. Several companies have popped up seemingly overnight offering tours to Markawasi on the internet, some more reputable than others. Use your best judgement when researching offers, especially if they seem to good to be true. Be sure to request recent letters of reference from fellow travelers who live outside Peru. Be sure to follow-up before sending funds.
A well-managed professionally run tour should include all camp facilities and provisions, meals, and purified water, porters and pack animals, and a knowledgable bilingual guide. Remember, there are no food services on Markawasi, no bathing facilities nor bathrooms. With plunging nighttime temperatures at high altitude, and a 2 1/2 hour hike down the mountain for provisions, ask how these issues will be handled. Is transportation included to and from Lima to the site? Are the guides familiar with Markawasi? Is the equipment state-of-the-art and in good condition? Standard fare for a professionally run tour includes an itemized list of everything included, and disclosure of booking procedures, policies, fees and cancellation requirements.
It is entirely possible to run your own "self-guided tour" (as outlined in our book), by bringing gear (or renting it in Lima), provisioning for meals before heading out, and hiring a local (Spanish-speaking) guide in the village of San Pedro at the base of Markawasi. The people of San Pedro are expert in getting you to the site safely, and seeing to your basic needs.
For the past 22 years we have worked exclusively with professionally licensed and regulated Peruvian Tour operators with exceptional qualifications and decades of experience.
We believe that you should expect nothing less.
- Kathy Doore
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