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Puma is a revered spiritual teacher, healer, and mystic from Chinchero, Peru. A messenger of the Andean prophecies, he was trained since childhood by his grandfather, a powerful medicine man.
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Salkantay gets sold as “the alternative to the Inca Trail,” and that framing does it a disservice in both directions. It suggests Salkantay is what...
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