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Sachamama
Ethnobotanical Garden
cost, deposit, PAYMENT, TERMS & CONDITIONS
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PLEASE NOTE:
We are sorry but we
are unable to take bookings for Sachamama until further notice.
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How
to BOOK
sachamama
Travel
- Transfers - Flights
Travel
is intended from LIMA, Peru. Transfers within Peru are intended from
Lima, on first arrival of the trip
participant's international flight.
All participants must make their own
private international flight arrangements
to and from Lima. For
other tips and information please visit our link on
flights.
Minimum Number -
Taylor Made Individual Trips
No minimum number of participants
required for journeys to Sachamama. Trips to the
Ethnobotanical Garden are organized by El Mundo Magico on a tailor made basis, throughout the year, including the Easter,
Christmas and New Year period (check in advance for availability and confirmation).
Inclusive Cost Of
Trips To Sachamama Ethnobotanical Garden
Validity
From: 01
January 2005
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Number of
Weeks: |
Cost in GBP: |
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1 + Travel days |
£ 720 |
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2 + Travel days |
£ 990 |
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3 + Travel days |
£ 1,290 |
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4 + Travel days |
£ 1,500 |
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5 + Travel days |
£ 1,700 |
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6 + Travel days |
£ 1,900 |
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7 + Travel days |
£ 2,100 |
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8 + Travel days |
£ 2,300 |
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9 + Travel days |
£ 2,500 |
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10 + Travel days |
£ 2,700 |
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11 + Travel days |
£ 2,900 |
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12 + Travel days |
£ 3,100 |
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Please Note:
After
the standard 3 months period you will need to renew your entry
VISA in Peru.
You are kindly
invited to make any visa-related enquire you may have, directly
with the
Peruvian Consulate/Embassy in
your country of residence.
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16 + Travel days |
£ 3,900 |
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20 + Travel days |
£ 4,700 |
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24 + Travel days |
£ 5,500 |
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Longer periods,
up to 52 weeks
(one year) in length: |
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Currency converter link
You may find
useful this currency
converter link: http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic, however please note that tourist rates
are different from bank rates and that your bank will ultimately apply
its own rate of exchange when wiring funds in GBP (British Pounds).
PLEASE NOTE:
Dates in Sachamama
All weekly periods reflect actual period of staying
in Sachamama. All prices are inclusive of
round-trip flight Lima-Iquitos-Lima, all transfers in Peru and Hotel staying
(which count for 2-3 extra days
travel altogether)
as detailed
below.
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How To Pay
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U.K.
PAYMENTS:
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payable to:
"El
Mundo Magico Ltd" |
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Bank Draft / Money Transfer:
(including CHAPS
electronic payments)
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Bank
details below |
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With
PayPal
you may pay by email, sending funds to our
registered
email
address:
info@elmundomagico.org
You need to have a
PayPal
verified address to send
amounts over
£ 1,000 GBP.
PLEASE NOTE:
If
paying by
PayPal e-Cheque,
drawing funds directly form your bank account, you need to add £ 3.50 GBP
to the total net amount for the retreat in Sachamama, to cover for
PayPal handling
fees.
If paying by
Credit Card
via
PayPal
you must add
3.4% + £ 0.20 GBP, to the total net payment for the
retreat, to cover for
PayPal
credit card handling fees.
Please always contact us
before sending the payment via PayPal, to double check correct amount to
send. Thank you. |
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INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENTS:
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Bank Draft /
Electronic Wire Transfer:
(SWIFT /CHAPS Payments) |
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This is an electronic way to transfer money. A wire
transfer can be 'standard' (allow 4-6 working days, to be received),
or 'urgent' (allow 2-3 working days to be received). We have
given below
the SWIFT
code of our bank, which must be used - for extra security and
identification - when sending a wire to us.
PLEASE NOTE:
ALL BANK FEES - national and international - for wiring the
funds to us, must be paid in full by you at the time of sending the wire. There is
no need to cover for UK bank fees if you send a CHAPS
transfer/payment.
The amounts shown above
are net amounts, after bank fees. You must make sure to select the
option "pay all fees" in the wire transfer form provided by your
bank. Or else, there is no need for this if you send a CHAPS
transfer, as there are no fees on this end. |
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If you have a
PayPal
account, you may pay by email, sending funds to our
PayPal registered
email address:
info@elmundomagico.org
You need to have a
PayPal
verified address to send
amounts over
£ 1,000 GBP.
PLEASE
NOTE:
If paying by
PayPal e-Cheque,
you need to add £ 3.50 GBP to the total amount required, to cover for PayPal
international handling fees.
If you instead prefer to pay by
credit card via PayPal
you must add 3.9% of the total payment required + £
0.20 GBP, to
cover for PayPal international handling fees.
Please always contact us before sending
the payment with PayPal, to double check correct amount to send. Thank you.
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Bank Details
National and International Payments
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Bank Name:
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National Westminster Bank plc |
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Bank Address: |
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Clapham Common Branch,
145 Clapham High Street,
London SW4 7SN,
UNITED KINGDOM |
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Account
Name: |
El Mundo Magico Ltd |
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Account Number:
(Do not use
spaces between numbers) |
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82044856 |
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Branch Sort
Code:
(This is a kind of equivalent, in the UK, of the U.S. 'ABA Routing Code
#') |
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60 - 05 - 34 |
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SWIFT
Code:
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NWBKGB2L |
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IBAN Number: |
GB41NWBK60053482044856 |
Below are some contact details for
National Westminster Bank, should you have any query about your transactions:
National Westminster Bank
Facsimile: + 44 (0)
1634 895 305
Telephone
enquires: Direct line:
Tel. + 44 (0) 845 605
2605 -
International
Payment Operations (deals with foreign transfers): Tel. + 44 (0) 870 2405
800
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Deposit
& Booking
Deadline
A deposit of £ 450
GBP
will secure a place in Sachamama.
Formally, we require it to be received at least 40 days before the
intended date of travel, with the final or full payment/balance to be received by us
- with funds cleared - no less than 30 days prior to your departure in Peru. Unless due to a real emergency,
please stick to the deadline. If you wish to book your place and pay your participation
fees ahead of the standard period required, for extra peace of mind, you may do
so, saving us time and energy! We strongly recommend longer advance booking time
if choosing the plant diet retreat, given the limited availability of places.
Cancellations
& Refunds
Although an extremely remote possibility, we
reserve the right to cancel a trip/retreat at any time. In such a case, El Mundo
Magico shall have no responsibility beyond the refund of the money paid by the
trip participant, net of bank fees.
In
case of trip cancellation on your part, up to 26 days before your first arrival
in Lima, we will retain £ 230 GBP for administrative fees, and refund the
difference paid by you, after bank fees (all bank fees are on your side, for all
cancellations made by you that give entitlement to a refund).
No refunds beginning from 25 days before
your first arrival in Lima, or else, beginning from 26 days before your
scheduled retreat date in Sachamama (whichever is earlier).
After the expiring of the
deadline we
*might* still re-schedule your trip/retreat at a later date, at our sole and
exclusive discretion,
subject to previous assessment of
suitability, feasibility and availability, followed by written confirmation, and to the
payment of a cancellation fee of £ 230 GBP per
retreat
participant,
PLUS the reimbursement of
any charges
or losses
we may incur
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as result of
your cancellation
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from
the
service providers
(instances
of which are - without limitations -
Hotels,
travel
agencies, airlines,
workshop/retreat providers, tour guides,
tour operators, banks, Western Union,
etc.).
For the sake of clarity, please note that the 25
days no-refund period is counted both towards cancellations made by you before
your first arrival in Lima/Peru and to any cancellations/abandonment/curtailing
of your scheduled trip/retreat in Sachamama, eventually made by you once in Peru, even if due
to emergency/unpredictable/unforeseen circumstances, for which you must be covered by an appropriate travel and medical insurance.
It is not possible to exchange the money
paid for a retreat in Sachamama with any other retreat or programme we offer.
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Included
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Fully detailed, personalized, tailor-made travel
schedule (including practical advice on anti-malaria prophylaxis);
Internal flights in Peru (LIMA-IQUITOS
and IQUITOS-LIMA);
Courtesy archaeological-historical
Lima Tour
- or,
alternatively, visit to the ancient pre-Inca oracular complex of
Pachacamac
(31 km
south of Lima, off the Peruvian cost);
All
transfers and airport pick-ups in Peru, from the moment of your first
arrival with the international flight in Lima,
including transfers
to and from Sachamama Ethnobotanical Garden,
according to your customized travel schedule;
3 star Hotel in LIMA (2 nights, i.e. 1 night for each outbound and inbound
sector of your trip);
3 star Hotel in
IQUITOS (2
nights, i.e. 1 night on the outbound and inbound sector of the trip,
although if you arrive in the morning, or in the afternoon, you may find
the Hotel staying in Iquitos not necessary);
Continental
breakfast in Hotel in LIMA.
The time spent in Sachamama is inclusive of the following:
Full
board;
Lodging in
single or double occupancy rooms, in typical Amazonian bungalows (shared bathrooms and
showers); single occupancy for solo travellers, double occupancy for two
or more retreat attendants;
Courtesy laundry
service, exception
made for 'dieteros' (e.g. the people committed to the plant diet);
'Dieting'
with teacher plants (if that is your choice, on a purely voluntary basis
of participation and subject to availability);
Aura cleansing with
a special
shamanic perfume made of
rainforest flowers and cleansing perfumed clay bath (baρo de limpie);
Two ayahuasca ceremonies per week (only
on a voluntary basis of participation);
The
opportunity to meet other shamans;
Learning about shamanism and the local plant lore - with practical identification
of Amazonian 'teacher plants' specimens;
Natural painting tutorials (e.g.
learning about the use of natural pigments and dyes from the various
plants and fruits that the rainforest offers);
Other
activities at the discretion of don Francisco Montes Shuρa. |
Please note that it is essential for us to know
- at the moment of
the booking - whether you intend to 'diet' with teacher plants or not, and this
need to be clearly stated from the beginning.
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Excluded
Excludes international travel tickets to and from LIMA, food in LIMA and in IQUITOS
(exception made for continental breakfast),
personal items, purchases in the markets, regalia, tips, travel and medical
insurance, airport taxes (currently International Departure tax of about $ 31.00
USD
from LIMA, plus Domestic Departure tax
of about $ 6.00
USD from
LIMA and IQUITOS, for each outbound and inbound sector of the journey).
Any other thing not expressly mentioned in the programme.
How to Book
You may use:
Our standard
Booking Form - only for the entries 1)-6) and 8) listed below - and provide
the rest of the info by
email plus
- sending it only by POST - your
liability release form
+ copy of your passport;
Or else, provide all relevant
details - i.e. entries 1)-6) and 8) listed below, by
email-
and provide
only by POST your
liability release form
+ copy of your passport;
Either way is fine. Please note that
only PayPal payments may be done by email,
although we would still need to receive your confirmation of payment done by
email, regardless of how it has been originally made.
Here is what we need to have from
you:
Please provide the following:
1)
Your name as it appears on your passport;
2)
Your passport number and country of issue;
3)
Passport valid from and expiry date;
4)
Your nationality;
5)
Your date and place of birth;
6)
Your address and telephone number + email;
7)
Contact in case of emergency;
8)
Your signed
waiver of liability + copy of
the relevant page of your passport, the one with your details on;
9)
Your international flight details, including carrier name, flight number, flight
times, origin and destination points (only sectors to/from Lima);
10)
Your payment, net of bank fees, including bank fees for sending the wire - where
applicable - in the country of origin of the payment + UK bank fees (currently
UK bank fees are £ 7 GBP).
Upon receipt of the above, we will
prepare your customized travel plan, which will be sent to you as email
attachment or by post, or both.
Accommodation
Accommodation in the
Hotel in LIMA and IQUITOS is in single room with private
services inside for individual travellers; in double room for groups of two
people, in triple room for groups of three or more people, all with private
services inside.
Accommodation in Sachamama is
in traditional-style Amazon wooden buildings with thatched palm roof. There
are now two large bungalows which have undergone a radical restructuration:
each one of them has screened, private rooms (with personal lock), with shared showers, running water/wash
basins and toilets inside. Sleeping areas are equipped with comfortable, cotton-made mosquito nets. Inside
each one of the two buildings there is a communal area for socializing.
Under special request, generator powdered electricity
might be provided in certain areas of the Ethnobotanical Garden, running up to 3 hours during the evening.
This is hardly used however, and most travellers do prefer candle light to
electricity...There are no wall plugs to recharge batteries or
electric/electronic equipment in Sachamama.
Dieteros
- e.g. people under
'plant diet' regime - will be staying in one of the twenty private, individual (and
more rustic) tambos (traditional Amazonian hut built on stilts), separated from all the others, and set far apart
from the main structure.
All these tambos have now the comfort of a private toilet and a shower.
They have been
recently refurbished and are entirely screened with metal mesh as protection
from insects. There is
no electricity in the
areas where the dieteros live.
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general information
Schedule & Jungle Etiquette
El Mundo
Magico reserves the right to change the order of the schedule offered,
or to make adjustments/changes
to the programme,
at any
time without prior notice. Participants are expected to show respect at all
times for the environment they are into (being that plants, animals, the
rainforest or ceremonial
practices) and to project a friendly attitude towards their fellow travellers and native people.
We reserves
the right to kindly decline - at any time - applications of participants reputed unsuitable to the spirit of the
initiative and programme offered.
Should
you behave in a way which is either offensive, defamatory, derogatory, disrespectful or abusive of other people partaking to the retreat, to
the ceremonial
practices, to the shaman(s), or to the local people working in the centre, you
will be asked to leave immediately, the entire payment received for your trip will be forfeited
and with no entitlement to refunds, You will also not be re-admitted in
Sachamama at any other time.
Valuables
Participants
should take care of - and are entirely responsible for - their
valuables, at all times. A security storage facility is offered, usually free of
charge, in our Hotel in Lima. Whilst in Peru,
keep your valuables locked in your backpack and keep your room locked when you
are away. Avoid public display of large
sums of money, expensive jewellery, or expensive camera equipment, especially in
the street and in market places.
Insurance
Travel Insurance
is a requirement to protect yourself in case of flight delays and
cancellations, and also in case of abandonment, curtailing and cancellation of the retreat
in Sachamama on your part, due to
emergency or unforeseen circumstances.
You are also
required to take
appropriate Medical Insurance for your trip to Peru/the Amazon, which would cover
you
for urgent emergency evacuation, including repatriation by air ambulance. We recommend this to include cover for
a minimum of
£ 2,000,000 GBP, or equivalent in foreign currency.
Your
premium should be forwarded to us at the same time as your payment, alongside
your liability waiver, in order to ensure that you are protected under the
coverage & terms of your policy.
We recommend a type of insurance which would
offer immediate payment to the service providers in Peru, rather than offering a
refund of medical expenses upon returning home. Please dont be overly alarmed!
Just using some good precautions and common sense will keep you always on the
straight path!
Liability
Waiver
Click here to go to the
Waiver of Liability
All participants
to trips facilitated by El Mundo Magico must accept the terms and conditions
indicated in the
waiver of liability for
Sachamama Ethnobotanical Garden. Please print, sign and return to us the form by
recorded/registered mail.
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