Tag: sacred valley

November 04, 2024/ Activities / 0 Comments

Flora and fauna of the Sacred Valley

Discovering the flora and fauna of the Sacred Valley Peru’s 60km long Sacred Valley is a place of extraordinary natural beauty, colourful history and vibrant culture. Hugging the Urubamba River, the valley covers a range of elevations through the Andes. From towering icy peaks and barren desert landscapes to verdant […]

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 […]

August 15, 2024/ Activities / 0 Comments

Spectacular ruins of the Sacred Valley

Peru’s Sacred Valley formed the beating heart of the formidable Inca Empire, which stretched from Colombia in the North to Chile in the South and was centred around its capital city at Cusco. Endowed with extraordinary natural beauty, a rich history and vibrant culture, this 60km long verdant agricultural valley […]

June 26, 2024/ Activities / 0 Comments

Destination Peru

“Today, the country is the region’s most enthralling combination of old and new, indigenous and European, human and natural, cultural highlights and geographical wonders”.   When one of the UK’s foremost travel journalists writes that about Peru, it is worth pausing to take note. In a recent article – The […]

 
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