Find Yourself in the Sacred Valley
There’s nothing like pushing yourself to your limits—and emerging stronger and more confident than ever. Choose the ultimate test and hike up to Machu Picchu, step by step, with the supportive camaraderie of your fellow adventurers. You can also choose a gentler way to the top (by van), but no matter how you get there, Machu Picchu inevitably sparks reflection. Standing in the sublime ruins of a powerful civilization, surrounded by towering mountains, so close to the sky, you can’t help but think about the big questions in life and feel transformed by the experience.
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Dive Deep into Culture and History
Take a bean-to-bar chocolate workshop and savor the incredible flavors of this Peruvian specialty. Learn about traditional Andean life and ancestral artistic weaving with Awamaki community members. Camp in “the City Above the Clouds,” and pass through landscapes of fertile plains, adobe buildings, magnificent Inca ruins and Andean forests as you learn about the rich history and spiritual significance of each site of your journey.
Hike Among the Clouds
A Spellbinding Travel Through Time
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Meet Disnarda
A native of Cusco, Disnarda Aragon Choque is immensely proud of her Inca cultural heritage. She grew up speaking Spanish as well as Quechua, the language of the Incas and of the majority of the people who live in the mountains of southern Peru. From an early age, she enjoyed spending time in the mountains, in close contact with the natural environment. A graduate of the rigorous Tourism program at Cusco’s San Antonio Abad University, Disnarda has been working as a professional guide since 2002. She enjoys introducing visitors to the natural wonders of the Andes, as well as encouraging a cultural mixing between visitors and her Andean neighbors.
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Healing on the Inca Trail
In late 2014, I was diagnosed with a more uncommon type of breast cancer and immediately went through surgery, months of tests, radiation treatment and hormone treatment. As I was coming out of the fog, I came across Wild Women Expeditions through a mutual business group I belong to and discovered the trips they set up for women.
