Days 1-3. Explore Pucallpa

Fly into Pucallpa and discover a city bursting with life on the Amazon frontier. Explore city markets and sample exotic rainforest cuisine. Learn about the challenges that beset a region that possesses the world’s most valuable resources.

What is Medicine?

Attend a special one-day symposium at UNÍA, the National Intercultural University of the Amazon. Learn from local experts the latest research on the potential of Amazonian remedies to get to the source of many illnesses and support enduring wellness and resilience.

Visit Biokuka

Visit Biokuka, a botanical teaching garden, where you can identify many species of medicinal plants, how they are cultivated, and how remedies are prepared.

Tour the Ucayali

Take an ecological boat tour of the mighty Ucayali river, the main headstream of the Amazon River. Experience an incredible biodiversity of aquatic flora and wildlife and visit riverine communities that live in close harmony with nature.

Days 4-7 Visit Santa Clara

Embark to Santa Clara and stay with a Shipibo-Conibo community that has revitalized their ancestral ways of life.

Attend Community Presentations

Experience Shipibo-Conibo traditional practices with the community including fishing, art, music, and medicine. Learn their unique perspective on medicine and wellness and what it can teach us can teach us about living in balance with the planet.

 

Amazonian Permaculture

Discover Amazonian permaculture, an ecological practice of cultivation and a philosophy of living, that has existed in the Amazon for millennia.

Rao Banabo

Work with RAO BANABO, a Shipibo-Conibo project  launched in response to the pandemic to support the use of traditional medicinal plants for families without access to public healthcare. Learn how to prepare traditional remedies to support the immune system and kill viruses.

Workshop in the mysterious art of the Kené.

Take a hands-on workshop on the ancient art of Shipibo-Conibo slip-fired pottery.  Discover the meaning behind their complex Kené designs and their mysterious origins.

Days 8-13 Embark to the Rainforest

Embark to the Aguas Thermales Reserve and discover a geological phenomenon, a “boiling river” that extends seven kilometers through the rainforest and reaches boiling point in places.  Observe a huge variety of birds, monkeys, insects and reptiles in one of the most ecologically diverse regions of the planet.

Visit Santuario Huishtín

Stay at Amazonian plant medicine centre, Santuario Huishtín, and take nature hikes to identify giant medicinal trees and ancient species of plants.

Natural Magic

Discover the magical world of vegetalismo, a spiritual training and traditional botanical healing practice focused on the natural intelligence of the rainforest.  Learn how to prepare different types of medicines, including la soga de alma (vine of the soul), Ayahuasca.

Expand Your Mind

Learn what plants can teach you about human creativity and our psychic connection to the natural world.  Attend ceremonies and experience transformative medicines with that can heal the mind, expand your perception, and trigger vivid dreaming.

Relax and Unwind

Experience how a deep immersion in rainforest can refine the senses, rebalance the mind and body, and develop your inner powers.

Return to Pucallpa

Spend your final days visiting cultural sites in Pucallpa. Meet Amazonian visionary artists who work with plant medicines to enhance their communication with the spirits of nature.

Meet Your Tour Coordinator

 

 

Getting to Us

Your guide will meet you at your appointed hotel and time in the Upper Amazonian city of Pucallpa.