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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We are raising £25,000 to mark the 25 year anniversary of the Sol y Luna Foundation, which has been changing lives for a quarter of a century. See our GoFundMe campaign Meet Ronaldiño… At the age of 16, Ronaldiño developed Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a potentially life-threatening condition where the immune system […]
“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 […]