Painting by Pablo AmaringoExtra Tours And Workshops
post-Conference Tour to Cuzco, Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley
Chinchilejo (Quechua for Dragonfly), owned and operated by Mariella Noriega de Shoemaker (wife of Alan Shoemaker) is offering a post-Conference Tour to Cuzco, Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley for one week following the Conference.
The Extension Tour to Cuzco, Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley begins on July 29th and ends on the late afternoon of August 2nd. You can book your return international flights for late evening August 2nd or anytime August 3rd.
Following the Conference, you will have a rest day on the 28th of July in Iquitos. The Tour price of $1400 includes the round trip airfare from Lima-Cuzco-Lima as well as all entrance fees, ground transport, hotels, train through the Sacred Valley to Aguas Calients (lovely village below Machu Picchu) and everything else. It does not include your food. This way you can eat where and what you wish. The food in the Andes is quite varied and excellent (and it also is not expensive). We will be visiting the sacred sites and of course Machu Picchu.
The preconference Tune-Up
Those wishing a program for a week before the Conference can come to the Pre-Conference Tune-Up. This is for more experienced Ceremonial persons. It begins one week before the Conference and will be held at the Soga Del Alma compound just outside of Iquitos. You will be able to make your own medicina and hold your own Ceremony without a curandero being present. Total price: $200 USDs This includes everything from the time you arrive at the maloca/compound. Please contact us for more details.
Those signed up for the Pre-Conference Tune-Up should meet at the home/office of Chinchilejo located in Iquitos at Morona 531 on the 12th of July around 10am. From there you will be transported to the Tune-Up location which is quite near to Iquitos. During this Tune-Up you can come and go to Iquitos as you desire, to eat, to meet with others, to explore Iquitos and the surroundings.
Peter Gormans Jungle Jaunt
Thia pre-conference tour is a short, intense Introduction to the Amazon and Shamanic Work that begins on Thursday, July 10 and runs through the morning of Friday, the 18th when we disembark from the riverboat and have breakfast.
The trip includes one day/night in Iquitos where we'll do several interesting things, including visiting the plant market, taking a trip around town to the parts of Iquitos that tourists rarely see, and a visit to the beautiful Butterfly Farm. We'll also squeeze in eating grubworms for those who go for that sort of thing, get people outfitted with jungle boots and so forth.
On Friday we take off up the river for a glorious all night ride on the Amazon and Ucayali. I'll make sure to have some Little Sister magic fungi that grow in the region to give the sunset an extra glow--it's a fantastic night. On Saturday we head up the Supay and into the Aucayacu to my friend Juan's camp, our base for the next several days. Juan is my late teacher Julio's son-in-law. He and the rest of my excellent jungle team--Julio's sons, daughters and grandkids--all grew up where we're going and so know the area very well. During our time in the jungle we'll have the opportunity to drink ayahuasca twice, as well as trying the Matses medicines sapo and nu-nu. There will also be wild food gathering, medicinal plant collecting, hikes into primary forest and a walk in the most beautiful swamp in the world.
The trip is not physically hard--though we can make it hard for anyone who needs that--but it is jungle living as is done in northwest amazonia in 2008: The river is our swimming hole and shower, there are lots of mosquitos (I'll provide you with Gorman's Jungle Juice, the best after-sting in the world), and we'll be a long way from anywhere. On the other hand, it is glorious, beautiful, wonderful and will blow your mind and open your heart and after just 8 days with me you will know a surprising amount about the jungle, river travel and how people out there really live.
Trip cost is $1,000. That includes one night in a basic hotel in Iquitos, a few good meals while we're in town, breakfast when we return from the river and everything associated with the river. Airfare is not included. Drinking beer in Iquitos is not included. Calls to the US from the internet cafes are not included. But pretty much everything else is.
For contact, email Peter at peterg9@yahoo.com