Peru VIP Travel
Commitment to our home
Our sustainability policy incorporates the Global Code of Ethics to promote responsible and sustainable tourism in the destinations where we operate, minimizing the actions that can generate climate change, with the objective of the well-being of our employees, customers, partners, suppliers and the community. Peru VIP Tours carries out sustainable tourism projects and practices. Our objectives are to establish responsible practices that have a positive impact on the communities and children’s homes we work with, while ensuring that our clients enjoy a memorable trip. We present our 3 projects:
Mosoq Runa
The Mosoq Runa association, “Mosoq Runa”, a Quechua word that means “new people” was officially born on April 24, 2001 with the aim of carrying out a cultural – educational project in favor of Peruvian children and adolescents who come from precarious families and victims of physical violence and / or sexual abuse.
Mosoq Runa was born as a family home capable of satisfying the basic needs of children (room, food, clothing, medical care, and education) and offering them a “safe” family environment. Over the years he has developed activities to strengthen individual and cultural self-esteem. As well as other activities of Creative – Expressive stimulation (Theater, dance and painting). He also created training laboratories, such as bakery, ceramics and sewing, in order to guarantee children a future work at the same time, produce products for the self-sustainable process of the structure.
Our Co-founder, Vilma Calderon was part of the Mosoq Runa Home, is the main reason why Peru VIP Tours, supports this children’s home, bringing tourists to know the project and share with the children, as part of their Travel program, (Thus contributing financially to the project).
Potato Park
The Potato Park is an organization of four communities located in the highlands of the Sacred Valley in Cusco, Peru, that work together for the preservation of agricultural biodiversity and the retention of indigenous culture. Approximately 6,000 members of the community are currently working together to preserve the area with hundreds of native potato varieties (around 3,000), as well as ancient knowledge and technology related to the cultivation and management of their agricultural landscape. Resources are limited, their lands are considered a center of origin and diversity of potatoes, currently one of the four most important crops on earth, produced and preserved by the community over the centuries.
Currently, economic opportunities are desperately needed to allow indigenous peoples to live in the communities where they have traditionally lived for generations, so the Potato Park, with the support of many international organizations, launched agro tourism programs in 2006 and He developed a community that provide tourist services and activities.
Peru VIP Tours supports including the visit to the Potato Park within its programs to promote maximum potential and achieve the financial success of these communities. Peru VIP Tours believes that the environment and wildlife must be protected with sustainable plans managed and directed by the locals, and tourism can be an excellent tool to protect natural cultural resources and improve the empowerment of community members.
Umasbamba
Umasbamba is a small town of only 32 families and is located less than 13,000 feet. Everyone here is a subsistence farmer, they grow potatoes and grains. All houses are made of adobe, have no internal heating and are extremely rustic. Their houses have dirt floors and guinea pigs usually run around the corners. The remote location has isolated them from many opportunities for growth, such as education and commerce.
However, currently, with the impact of Experiential Tourism they built small houses, where they host tourists giving them the opportunity to learn more about their customs and culture, they carry out their normal activities such as grazing sheep, cultivating the farm, cutting grass to feed Its animals, in addition to enjoying their delicious cuisine with products grown by them from their farm to the pot, is definitely an experience of real Andean life.
Peru VIP Tours, offers two options to get to know this beautiful Umasbamba community, you can stay to spend a day and a full night with a family from the community, the other option is a gastronomic experience sharing a “Pachamanca” style buffet lunch, Quechua word that means “pot of land”, where they participate in the preparation, all the ingredients go into cooking in preheated stones placed on the ground, pork, beef, ram, cow, guinea pig and chicken, together with potatoes, sweet potato, corn, pods, cassava spices to enjoy a delicious “Pachamanca.”
