Language
Please learn at least basic Spanish before you come:
this will really help you a lot. 

Costs and travel-hours
- 2-way plain-ticket Europe-Perú*: approx. $1,000 - $1,500
(flight approx. 15 hours)
- Transport in Lima: $2 - $10. 
- 1-way plain-ticket Lima-Cusco or Cusco-Lima: approx. $100
(flight approx. 45 minutes) 
- Bus-ticket Lima-Cusco or Cusco-Lima: approx. $25 (ride approx. 20 hours)
- Transport in Cusco: $1
- Bus-ticket Cusco-Quillabamba or Quillabamba-Cusco: $5
(ride approx. 6 hours) 
- Transport in Quillabamba: $0.30 
- Common menu: $1 - $5 
- 0.7 liter of juice on market: $1. 
- 0.3 liter of juice in shop: $1. 
- Common hostel: $4 - $5
- Taxi (approx. 50 minutes) or truck (approx. 90 minutes)
Quillabamba-Madre Selva, 
or Madre Selva-Quillabamba: $1.50
- Road-end Madre Selva to our land: approx. 2 hours´ walk, fully packed. 

*For extra security, more tranquility,
as well as less travelling-hours to Cusco, 
we suggest you fly to La Paz, Bolivia, instead of Lima, Perú. 

What, where and how

Visa
After arriving in Lima, at some point, someone will give you a stamp on your papers: this is your visa. 
CHECK the amount of days that they give you! 
In most cases, when you come to Peru for longer times, you should get 90 days. 
People with a Dutch passport even get 180, the first time. 
Check this with your embassy, before you come over. 

Scroll down this page, to read more about obtaining a visa. 

Money
Most things in Perú are paid with `Soles´, 
which you can get from the cash-machine (Maestro-logo) inside Lima airport. 
In the whole country, you can use at least the `Banco de Credito´ (best option) and `Banco Continental´. 

Security
Take the amount you´ll need for a few days, and keep it in 2 different places, both on you. 
Always use a money-belt under your clothes, for passport, cards, and maybe some money. 
Always keep physical contact with your bags. 

It´s very probable, that you´ll need to stay a night in Lima: 
there are a few economic places in `Avenida Petit Thouars´ (`cuadra 5´), in `La Victoria. 

Ask at the airport-taxis for a `registrado´, and get the price clear before jumping in. 
If they give you a price in dollars, just take another taxi. 
The right price will vary from 25 to 45 soles. Always bargain to get closer to 25. 

Vaccines
It´s always good to be extra protected: 
for Perú, advice is given, to protect against Yellow fever, Typhoid, Hepatitis A & B, and Malaria. 

However, be very conscient about vaccines! They are not to be trusted in any way! 
Please contact our friend Harry for an alternative (drops), 
which is completely secure, far easier, cheaper, and…FUNCTIONAL. 
You can e-mail him at `herrypp XXX hotmail.com´. 
Please replace the `XXX´ in the address for a `@´. 
We use this trick to mislead the spam-bots. 

Extra: worthwhile! 
Finally, we´d also suggest the following spiritual measure, 
to apply at least 6 weeks before you´ll be coming over: 
contact Olof Smit (www.earthfather.eu) to have him 
do a check on you, and, in case he finds any heaviness or vulnerability, 
have him do one of his once-in-a-lifetime-sessions, 
which will clean up your whole family-line, forever…
and sometimes it´s quite heavy what you´ll be leaving behind! 
Great results! 

The investment is just E60,-, and your whole family will benefit. 

Packing-list (for longer stays)
- Passport, banking-card, etc.: never leave! 
- Rubber boots (buy in Quillabamba)
- Comfortable shoes (trekking-boots are heavy, slippery, cut you loose from mother Earth, 
and are very expensive: we´d recommend good sports-shoes) 
- Sandals
- Rain-gear
- 2 pairs of pants (thin and somewhat strong) 
- 2 sweaters (buy nice (and also very cheap) in Cusco)
- 4 T-shirts (preferably long-sleeved)
- 5 sets of underwear
- Hat/cap
- Swimming-clothes
- Towel
- Personal hygiene (please bring natural products, if you can) 
- Personal medicine
- Plasters
- Tent
- Sleeping-bag
- Flashlight
- Money for the nights and meals (see our different options) 
- A seed or plant, which we can plant together on the land

More about visa
When your visa is about to expire, just move over the border, 
for at least a few hours, and return to Perú. 
At the customs, your visa will get renewed.
It is also possible, to have your visa renewed at any `migraciones´-office through the country, 
e.g. Cusco, when you pay a fee. 

If questions are asked, tell the officials that your working on a `proyecto de apoyo, de educación´, 
and that you´re busy with getting your permanent visa.
You´ll be able to travel back and forth like this, for at least a few years.

To get a permanent visa in the future, you can do one of these things:
- Marry a Peruvian; 
- Get a working-contract at a Peruvian company (based on truth either lies);
- Be retired, receiving a monthly amount on your bank-account.