Tag: allure of the andes

October 15, 2024/ Activities / 0 Comments

Written in the stars – Hotel Sol y Luna featured in Wanderlust archaeo-astronomy tour

Travel writer and photographer Mark Stratton recently spent a heavenly week in Peru’s Sacred Valley.  “…Immersed within a living Andean landscape…” he writes in the August/September edition of Wanderlust travel magazine, “…little [has] changed since the conquistadors arrived”. A winter visit to the Peruvian Andes with an unusual slant, Mark’s […]

September 15, 2024/ Activities / 0 Comments

Birdwatching in the Sol y Luna gardens

The Sol y Luna gardens – 25 acres of lawns and an abundance of native flowers, trees and shrubs, all connected by winding stone pathways – play host to a wide variety of birdlife, not to mention insects and butterflies. This is perhaps unsurprising, considering that Peru has one of […]

May 15, 2023/ Activities / 0 Comments

The allure of the Andes

‘Great things are done when men and mountains meet’ – William Blake   In Incan mythology, there is a word for the spirit of the Andes – ‘Apu’. The Andes are a force to be reckoned with; the longest mountain range in the world, host to some of the highest […]