Sol y Luna authentically reflects the rich Andean culture and allows to share the beauty of the Sacred Valley with guests while generating the income to support the Sol y Luna Intercultural School.
Following owner`s Marie heart, she lefts a successful corporate life for the Sacred Valley of the Incas, to live her dream of improving the future for some of the world’s poorest children.
In her husband Franz, she mets the perfect match. Marie has tons of ideas for how to educate these children, and Franz possesses the gifts to build and realize these audacious dreams.
In 1999, they started an education project for the local children, many of whom walked for hours each day to get to a school in poor condition or did not go at all.
Working within the existing social fabric proved invaluable to understanding the realities of schools and families around the Sacred Valley.
To support education initiatives in the most economically sustainable way given Sacred Valley’s potential for tourism, in 2000 they decided to build a hotel.
Franz and Marie gradually understood that they could be most effective by starting they school. In 2009, Franz and Marie opened the Sol y Luna Intercultural School, which children Thomas and Melanie attend today, along with 185 children of the Sacred Valley.
PHILOSOPHY
Owners place no limits on generosity in hosting guests at Sol y Luna because inspiration originates in giving to the children of the Sol y Luna Intercultural School. It is a virtuous circle.
People are the key to the success at Sol y Luna. Everyone who works here sincerely desires to take care of guests, motivated by the Andean concept of Ayni, which means reciprocity in Quechua, the local language, and emphasizes interdependence.
Each of these forty-three casitas is surrounded by gardens filled with flora native to the Sacred Valley and all face the Andes Mountains where the Incas believed their gods dwelled.
Within each private sanctuary, an outdoor terrace leads into the high ceilinged living space with terra cotta tile floors, Peruvian textiles and some of favorite Sacred Valley artifacts.
Spanish colonial style furniture, a plump king size bed or two double beds made with goose feather duvets and a spacious marble bathroom, just as you might have at home.
And then there is the art. Marie mets Federico several years ago and felt immediately enchanted by his brightly painted, fantastical sculptures of Andean flowers and animals.
Culinary team trained with Pedro Miguel Schiaffino, one of the leading innovators of contemporary Peruvian cuisine and owners look to the time honored, rich traditions of Andean cooking which integrate the bountiful harvests of ancient Incan agrarian techniques.
They took the decision not to have hotel gardens and fields but to train local farmers, so far they have four, to grow the quinoa, potatoes, herbs, spices and other produce team needs.
This extends Sol y Luna community outreach while ensuring exceptional, fresh and natural ingredients in every dish team serves at Killa Wasi and Wayra, where focus is especially locavore, to connect guests to the exceptional flavors of the Sacred Valley.
Ascend the spiral staircase for pisco sours at sundown or a spirited nightcap among musician ‘friends’, created by the talented hands of Peruvian artisans.
Bartender will prepare all coctails, as you wish. You will enjoy time here for a long time.
Coctails
Bienvenidos to Chef Nacho’s kitchen, where he leads up to ten guests on this three-course culinary adventure among the aromas, flavors, colors and tastes of Peru, accompanied by Pisco Sours.
Still grown natural ingredients at your table may include white and red corn, quinoa and around 4,000 types of potatoes.
As you experience the Sacred Valley through your taste buds, learn about the produce of this fertile basin that has been the region’s breadbasket since the time of the Incas who built the agrarian terraces, called andenes in the Quechua language.
Contemporary interpretations of Sacred Valley’s rustic culinary traditions and refined Cusqueña cuisine incorporate the produce of organic farming neighbors as well as the chef’s discoveries in the Peruvian jungles and along the Amazon.
Within the gently rounded, rose hued walls of ‘House of the Moon’, along with serving a buffet breakfast and relaxed vegan lunch, team offers an exceptionally refined evening experience.
Guests dine formally and in luxurious comfort around a traditional Peruvian hearth.
Sophisticated dishes express the rich agrarian history of the Sacred Valley of the Incas and the creativity of contemtorary Peruvian cuisine.
Peruvian cuisine
Cozy space with fireplace made Lounge the ideal place for evening stay.
An artful gathering place for pisco sours and live performances.
Bar
For the Incas, this rustic yet highly symbolic dining ritual named for the Quechua words pacha “earth” and manka “pot” represented a celebration of the cycle of life.
Digging an earthen oven and cooking food underground pays homage to Pachamama, the Incan fertility goddess.
Surrounded by the glorious Andes Mountains and Sol y Luna’s thriving gardens, team recreates this quintessentially Andean banquet, at lunch or dinner, for up to 8 people.
Like Incan ancestors, they returns food to Mother Earth’s belly before they eat it is as sign of respect.
Team turns hand-painted, wood-burning ovens on the outdoor terrace over to guests, who don chef hats and aprons, to knead the dough and prepare pizzas under the guidance of chef.
The plentiful selection of fresh toppings, carnivore and vegetarian alike, ensure each pizza is an utterly customized glutton’s delight.
Convivial dining in the fresh Andean air, accompanied by Peruvian Paso horse riding demonstrations and Marinera dancers.
The tasty food and drinks, the amazing atmosphere - all for your comfortable stay.
Housed within Sol y Luna’s Wayra ranch and open to the public, relaxed day into evening eatery was built for three simple purposes: to eat, to drink and to love.
Fantastical murals and sculptures by Federico, artist often in residence, finish these high, vaulted spaces made homey with local terra cotta tiles and stonework, hand-painted artisanal woodcarvings by Peruvian master Jaime Lievana and commanding wood burning fireplaces in both the Dining Room and Lounge.
Four nights each week world class circus performers put on a spectacle of awe-inspiring acrobatics as a prelude to Chef
Nacho Selis’ Andean cuisine honoring the wealth of naturally organic ingredients first harvested here in the bountiful Sacred Valley by the ancient Incas.
Like its namesake, the Quechua word meaning ‘wind’, Wayra offers seasonal dishes that cannot quite be contained by a single cooking style.
At breakfast, lunch and dinner, Chef Nacho’s dishes honor the Andean ingredients grown by local farmers.
Naturally organic dishes
Peruvian haute cuisine meets Old and New World wines in singular wine cellar.
Spanish red walls surround the antique dining table for up to fourteen, set with hand-embroidered linens, custom china, formal silverware and an array of roses from gardens.
An evening in subterranean sanctuary ends the day on the most sophisticated epicurean note, with a bespoke menu of seasonal dishes prepared by Executive Chef Nacho Selis and paired with wines curated by in-house Sommelier.
Wine
Quechua for ‘house of water’, the intimate spa wrapped in artful stained glass and local stone offers holistic relaxation between invigorating adventures around the Sacred Valley and excursions to Machu Picchu.
Native healing meets modern pampering as internationally trained therapists deliver rejuvenating massage, facial and hydrotherapy treatments incorporating organic, locally grown Andean plants and herbs.
The newly built cardio and free weights equipped gym adjacent to the swimming pool offer two distinct ways to unwind.
Aromatic Andean herbal infused sauna located in the spa.
In three private, candlelit treatment rooms, Yacu Wasi spa offers a wide range of treatments complemented by aromatherapy and essential oils.
For guests who like to rise with the sun that was so sacred to the ancient Incas, hotel offers daily yoga.
Stunning landscape and a benevolent climate persuaded the Incas to settle in the Sacred Valley, which they considered a mirror of the Milky Way.
Team invites you to come fly with the wind, cycle along Andean terraces, kayak under snowcapped peaks and trek the ancient mountain pathways of the Incas.
Discover remote villages, colonial churches and mysterious heritage sites on horseback or by quad bike.
Home to Andean civilization for more than 500 years, the Sacred Valley is also a veritable treasure trove of historic sites including Machu Picchu and vibrant, thriving cultural traditions.
For those who prefer their cultural immersion in the kitchen, owners offer an array of the Sacred Valley’s most palatable pleasures.
Sol y Luna invites a group of talented local women to demonstrate textile production, from the untangling of the natural wool fibers.
Kunata Wasi exhibits Sacred Valley’s finest and most sophisticated folk art, typically the work of anonymous hands expressing the lives of the Andean people.
Hummingbirds and butterflies flutter among 25 acres of private gardens abundant with indigenous flowers and native bird species.
Known for their docile nature, Peruvian Paso horses offer a comfortable, relaxed way to explore the Land of the Incas.
The Peruvian Paso Horse combines the virtues of Arabic, Berber and Andalusian breeds.
Snow-capped Andean peaks surround crystal clear and calm Huaypo Lake, offering the ideal conditions for a relaxed paddle.
Two wheels is the most exhilarating way to see the most of the Land of the Incas at the closest perspective.
This pleasant, relaxed outing with Chef to a nearby farm and the local market leads into the heart of Peruvian cuisine.
There is a long tradition of local potters in the area.
From the hill tops of the Sacred Valley, starts a unique flight along with the birds that inhabit the skies of the Sacred Valley.
Sacred Valley’s Cusi Wasi theater company brings to life the myths, ritual and legends of Andean civilization.
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