The Peru Grand Adventure

We’re meeting in Lima at 4pm in the hotel lobby to introduce ourselves, then heading straight out on a guided walking tour of "The City of Kings". We'll then have a special Welcome Dinner together at La Huaca Pucllana Restaurant, one of the city's top Peruvian restaurants, which overlooks pre-Incan ruins.

Wake up with Morning Pages and breakfast in our lovely hotel, then head out for a full day in Lima. We'll visit The Casa de la Literatura Peruana, a cultural treasure celebrating Peru's literary heritage.

In the afternoon we'll have a guided tour of a local produce market and cooking lesson at a local woman's home. You better have been paying attention - we'll eat our lesson for dinner.

Buckle up, it's time to head into the Amazon! (All internal transfers and flights are included.)

Posada Amazonas Lodge is a spacious ecolodge in the heart of a private concession owned by the Native Community of Infierno, the guardians of the rainforest. Your accommodation includes an open wall facing the forest. This afternoon we'll climb to the top of their special viewing canopy - toucans, parrots, or macaws are regularly seen overhead.

At night we'll do the first of our three writing workshops.

(All your meals are included during your stay at Posada Amazonas Lodge.)

After breakfast and Morning Pages, we have a full day to do the special activities Posada Amazonas Lodge include in our booking. If you're open to an early start you can join us on a hike and boat to try to spot rare Squirrel Monkeys and Giant Otters on Oxbow Lake. In the evening we can take a special night walk. There are also educational talks about conservation and the ecosystem of the Amazon available if you prefer the theoretical side of things.

(All your meals are included during your stay at Posada Amazonas Lodge.)

After breakfast, we head off to Cusco. (All your internal transfers and flights are included.)

Once we've checked in, we'll enjoy a guided walking tour around the center of town, seeing the the Stone of Twelve Angles at the Inca Roca Palace, and The Plaza de Armas, surrounded by colonial arcades and four churches. We'll finish the tour with a delicious snack in Florencia & Fortunata Café, and do a book club session together at night.

After Morning Pages and breakfast, we'll go visit the two most important and amazing Inca sites nearby: Sacsayhuaman and Qenqo. After our lunchbox-style packed lunch for the expedition, our group will then experience a private session with a local woman shaman, for ritual blessings and purification.

Back at our hotel in the evening we'll do our second workshop together.

After Morning Pages and breakfast, we have private cars to take us through the Sacred Valley towards the ruins of Pisac. This lush area has long been the main source of food for the high Andes, and at Pisac we'll learn more about Inca culture. Then we'll meet a local women's textile co-op where we'll learn how they use camelid fibres for weaving. Lunch together is at the sustainable local restaurant AMA.

In the evening back at our lovely hotel, we'll do our next book club.

After an early breakfast we'll be transported to board the tourist train towards Aguas Calientes - an exceptional journey along the edge of the Urubamba River. From there we get a bus up to Machu Picchu!

(According to government regulations, all visitors must follow a pre-determined route within the site. Your special admission is included.)

At night, back in our hotel together, we'll do our third workshop together.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Peru's biggest annual festival, Inti Raymi. An explosion of colour and culture. We've put the whole day aside to just be able to soak it in.

At the end of the day, after our final book club session, we will have a farewell dinner at Nuna Raymi, a local and sustainable restaurant.

After breakfast and a special, final-morning group activity with Bri, our official time together ends.

We'll head to the airport together (transfers included) after checkout.