Friday, June 5, 2009

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR RETREAT


Every day of our retreat and in each of the sites we will visit, we will enjoy Reb Yakov Leib's teachings and practices. (For more details on Reb Yakov Leib's planned spiritual teachings please refer back to the first page of this blogsite). We will gather as a group at the Lima, Peru International Airport during the morning of December 5, 2009. We will fly together to the City of Cusco with the early afternoon flight. Upon arrival we will be transferred to our hotel, The Del Prado Inn in the hearth of the city, by the main Plaza, adjacent to the Cusco Cathedral.




We will be housed in double rooms (single room option if available at a single room supplement). We will enjoy three daily nutritious and delicious meals together, both at the hotel and at each of the different sites we will be traveling to. We will begin our guided tours by traveling to Piquillactga and Tipon in the South Valley. We will do a thorough Cusco city tour including all the main religious, historic and archeological attractions in and around the city, the Cathedral,


Qoricancha (the Templo Del Sol, the central Inca sanctuary). We will have an overnight extensive tour of the Inca's Sacred Valley, the religious sites, the powerful magic of the land and its communities. We will travel to spend a day in the Pampallacta community, an isolated mountain village, to share our meals with the community and help that day with a community service project. On Thursday, December 10 we will travel by mountain Vistadome train to Aguas Calientes and from there we will take the mountain bus to the magnificent Matchu Picchu Sanctuary. We will stay overnight in Aguas Calientes at the ( hotel ) and return the second day to continue our journey and practices at the Matchu Picchu. Saturday we will have a Shabbat day with Reb Yakov Leib in Cusco. On Sunday we will visit Maras, Moray & Chinchero and enjoy a night with a Folkloric show. On December 14, we will be transferred to the Cusco Airport for our flight to Lima International Airport and our return flights home (sniff...)

If you hold a US issued passport, no visas will be required to enter Peru. There are no current health advisories for the South of Peru.

Please review and complete the registration forms at the bottom of this blogsite or call 914-439-7731 for additional details and information. CDPA@cdpa-americas.org