www.khomanta.com
The first Anastasia-based ecovillage in Perú! 
Get to experience this profetical, legendary and mystical virgin cloud-forest with waterfalls, 
close to Quillabamba (6 hours from Cusco-city), 
and the initiative of Khomanta Kancha! 
This experience can easily be combined with Vilcabamba and/or Machu Picchu.

Visitors, volunteers and even new neighbours are more than welcome! 
Experiencing the ecovillage in Madre Selva, you’ll see much about how we can live in harmony with nature, even in a virgin environment like this, 
Khomanta Kancha being an initiative for the future! You’ll learn something about basic permaculture, 
Bee-keeping, powerful nutrition, 
and a quick and highly effective way to get into shape, enjoying a stay at a beautiful place. 

You will have the option to stay at the ecovillage longer, 
learning much more about the mentioned aspects, 
as well as many other, according to your choice! 

After your breakfast at 6:30h, we’ll meet up to take the bus, into the direction of Quillabamba. 
We will pass Urubamba and Ollantaytambo, and then continue up a winding road in the direction of the "Malaga-Pass", which stands at an altitude of 4,316m.a.s.l.. 
From that point, we will see some of the most amazing landscapes that Peru has to offer.

Driving over the highest point, we will begin our descent into the sub-tropical region of the jungle, 
passing through different micro-climates, 
that combine the paradisiacal landscapes of the majestic snow-capped peaks with the hot, 
tropical entrance to the jungle. 

We will see lots of gorgeous landscapes all the way down. 
At about 15:00h, we will arrive in Quillabamba, ‘village of eternal summer’. 
After leaving the luggage in your hostel, 
we will finally have a good lunch (in the bus, we have had a snack, to not be bothered by hunger). 
After lunch, we’ll visit the typical zoo, 
just out of town. This zoo consists of resqued animals, 
and the entrance-fees are, apart from the animals’ food, 
invested in a new, spacious park for them. 
More economic option: you could also choose to come by your own, until the ecovillage. 

Therefore, please have a look on www.khomanta.com, to learn how to get there. 
Please send them a message, in that case, about a week before you come. 

Today, after having our breakfast at 7:00h, we’ll be taking a taxi to Madre Selva, 
where we’ll have a 2-hours’ walk to the ecovillage of Khomanta Kancha, 
where we’ll arrive at about 11:00h.  
Here, we’ll explain everything about the initiative, 
presenting you to the people who are present at that moment, 
letting you see about the way we work there, 
showing you some principles of permaculture, and what will have been managed until this moment. 

Also, we’ll have a few hours to work together, in garden, 
house or kitchen, this being part of the exchange for being in this beautiful place, 
to help the initiative a little. Of course, we’ll enjoy lunch, dinner and a good night’s rest here. 

After having breakfast at 6:00h, we’ll take time to go to the Bees, 
to show you how we work with them, 
explaining the basics of the wonderful World of Bee-keeping, including all the great products they make. 
This is a very important aspect in preserving our planet. 
Until lunch, we’ll be doing some work, 
either with the Bees, or whatever will be necessary, and liked by you. 
On a Sunny moment, probably after lunch, 

we have the option to enjoy a bath in the river Sambaray, or at the waterfall of Kusimayu. 
After some time of relaxing, it will be time for dinner. 
And after dinner, we could take some time to tell you really happened ghost-stories! 

Enjoying our breakfast at 7:00h, we’ll take a few hours, 
to go through the important basics of a very modern and effective course in nutrition. 
Either before or after lunch, at a moment of Sun, 
we’ll go to the Bebe-waterfalls, very closeby, where we can enjoy a paradise-bath. 
Also today, after some time of relaxing, it will be time for our dinner. 

At 6:00h we’ll have the option to go through the very simple exercises of Wu Dang-fitness, 
which is a very effective whole-body work-out, which you’ll come to know tomorrow. 
After this, we’ll enjoy our last 7:00h breakfast. 

Finishing breakfast, we’ll have time to do some work, bathe in 1 of the rivers, 
and pack our things. At about 10:00h, 
we’ll be heading down for Quillabamba again, 
where we’ll have lunch (not included), before you take the bus, back to Cusco. 
You could choose to get some food, to have dinner underway, 
for the bus doesn’t always stop for that. You’ll arrive in Cusco at about 22:00h. 

We suggest you bring
- Hat or cap
- Rain-poncho, and plastic to protect your backpack
- 2 sweaters, or 1 sweater and 1 jacket
- Sleeping-bag
- Insect-repellent
- Bottle of water
- Camera
- Optional: some seeds, or a small Plant, which we can plant in the garden

Included
- 4 breakfasts, 4 lunches and 4 dinners
- Professional guide
- Tents, matrasses
- All transport
- We’ll collect you on Cusco airport or bus-terminal, to bring you to your hostel

Not included
- Breakfast on day 1, lunch and dinner on day 5 
- Sleeping-bag (you can hire one in Cusco, if you don’t have one)