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Our Tour Guides
Don Valerio CohailaValerio ¬also known as Freddy comes from the Aymara people(Peruvian native) and is an Inka priest keeper of Andean-Amazon tradition. He was born in a Khallawaya community, 13,000 feet high in the southern Andes Mountain-Peru, and grew up with Yatiris, medicine men. In 1978 he began to teach the Mother Earth spiritual path. Valerio invites us to meet our ancestral memory on the Andes and the Amazon, to find, follow and live by the Mother Earth spiritual path.
Experience
Active in human rights/peace/social justice/environmental organizations since the early eighties. Committed to help educate people worldwide to the historical and contemporary truths effecting Native people everywhere. Working with people from over 50 countries to cultivate relationships with traditional Native people in North and South America.
Participated in and committed to Lakota Sundance Ceremony for the purpose of building relationships and exchanging traditional knowledge among North and South America.
Founder and Director of the Institute "Intiq Amarukuna", Cuzco, Peru. Organized educational gatherings in Cuzco, Peru and La Paz, Bolivia focusing on the necessity of Indigenous wisdom for human survival in balance with the environment. Organized gatherings of Indigenous Leaders from North and South America in Cuzco, Peru and Teotihuacan, Mexico. Forum created to share support for social progress and ways to be an instrument of positive social change and promote new understandings about and among Indigenous peoples. Been continued on yearly since 1992.
Education
- University of Chicago. Chicago IL
- Masters of Arts Degree in the Humanities, 2001.
- Northeastern Illinois University. Chicago, IL
- Liberal Arts Associate Degree, with Spanish Major, 1999.
- National University of Engineering. Lima, Peru
- Environmental Engineering, 1982.
- Speaker and participant in Seminars, Forums and Workshops with
- specialization in Vocational Human Development and Incan Cultural Tradition.
- Trip leader, providing programs for cultural tours to Peru and Mexico.
- Conduct people group and guide trips to historic, cultural and ecologic places of interest during the summer season.
- Founder and Director of the Inti Wayna Foundation, Peru. and
- Children of the Sun Foundation US.
- Sponsor of bi-lingual education for Children of the Quechua, Aymara and Amazon ethnic groups.
- Fluent in Spanish and Aymara.
Publications:
- Time life books - Meaning of life 1991-1992 Article on interviews with many people from around the world.
- Article on the Coca leaf tradition and history.
Carlos Fernanez Baca Tupayache
The president of the board of Munaypacha The Universal Love Specialist Mystical Tourism, is a scholar of the spiritual culture of the Andes dedicated to research since 1986, and the author of the book “The Other Sacsaywaman: the Untold Story”, which has been translated into English and Portuguese and been well-received both in Peru and abroad. Since 1989 he has participated in several international congresses throughout Latin America, the United States and Europe, and is currently working on another book, the central theme of which is his research into the highland communities of the Cusco region.
In 1992, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the meeting of two cultures, he participated as president of the organizing commission of the first International Conference of Andean Spirituality: “The Return of Pachacuty”, which took place in the city of Cusco and was attended by interested parties from all over the world.
Since 1994, he has been dedicated to revealing “the other Peru”, the spiritual culture of the Peru of the Incas, through tourist programs for groups of travelers wanting to visit Peru and Bolivia. These trips are in reality a form of pilgrimage to places that have had a spiritual importance for mankind since the beginning of time.
In his research work, Fernández Baca has participated in countless ritual ceremonies made by the inheritors of the Andean spiritual tradition, and has undergone initiation rites with the Paqo Runa (the high priests of Andean spiritual culture).
Since 2003, through international agreements, he has been working with a number of organizations from the developed world, as well as government departments, in the management of reforestation and fauna reintroduction projects, as part of his self-proclaimed mission to preserve Mother Nature, the “Sacred Pachamama”.
For more info on Carlos Fernanez go to: www.munyapacha.org
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