Sol y Luna - Relais & Chateaux

A unique, family-run @RelaisChateaux, founded in order to sustain a school for local children. The place to stay for Machu Picchu #hotelsolyluna

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SACRED VALLEY BIRDWATCHING - Sol y Luna's gardens – 25 acres of lawns and native flowers, trees and shrubs – play host to a wide variety of birdlife. Peru is a birdwatcher's paradise, and the peaceful gardens of Sol y Luna one of its highlights.

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SPECTACULAR RUINS - Home to the epic Inca Empire, Peru's Sacred Valley is a hotbed of incredible ruins, Inca terraces and citadels which Sol y Luna guests can explore at leisure.

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£25k FOR 25 - To celebrate the 25 year anniversary of the Sol y Luna Foundation, we want to raise £25,000 to help disadvantaged children in Peru's Sacred Valley.

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Peru - "the region’s most enthralling combination of old and new, indigenous and European, human and natural, cultural highlights and geographical wonders” - Chris Moss, one of the UK's foremost travel experts in the UK's Daily Telegraph

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Relais & Châteaux’s Travel Book magazine handpicks a select group of R&C properties leading the charge when it comes to socially and environmentally beneficial travel, including our very own Sol y Luna.

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INCLUSION - At Sol y Luna, we believe that everyone is entitled to equal opportunities. So we founded the Sol y Luna Foundation to achieve lasting, positive change for children in Peru’s Sacred Valley

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DOWN AT THE RANCH 🐴 Head on down to Wayra, home to our ranch and stables, and our relaxed, day-into-evening bar and eatery. With a pisco sour in hand, enjoy a Peruvian Paso horse show, an Andean dining ritual known as Pachamanca, and plenty more!

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YACU WASI - Quechua for 'House of Water', the spa at Sol y Luna offers a range of holistic wellness treatments for tired bodies - perfect after a day exploring Machu Picchu and Peru's Sacred Valley

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POSITIVE TRAVEL - Recently celebrating its 25 year anniversary, the Sol y Luna Foundation has grown from strength to strength supporting underprivileged children in Peru's Sacred Valley. Congratulations!

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FREE WHEELING 🚴 When French downhill mountain biker Kilian Bron and a film crew visited Sol y Luna, the results were incredible; amazing footage, stunning feats of cycling, and an opportunity for children of the SyL Foundation to meet the adventurers!

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LUXURY DOING GOOD - Hotel Sol y Luna features in Elite Traveler Magazine, who sum up our raison d'etre - to be a luxury hotel in an incredible setting, but with a wider purpose supporting children in the local community

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TREASURED MEMORIES - Inca ruins and Machu Picchu are normally top of people's to-do lists in Peru's Sacred Valley. But for many, it is visiting the Sol y Luna Foundation, and meeting the children there, that really stays in the heart forever.

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OLLANTAYTAMBO - A vital Inca outpost, base for Inca nobles, colonial town and departure point for Machu Picchu, the fascinating settlement of Ollantaytambo is well worth a visit during a stay at Sol y Luna.

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CUSCO - Capital of the Inca Empire, South America's oldest continuously inhabited city, home to exquisite colonial churches and palaces, and regularly voted one of the world's most memorable tourist destinations - Cusco has it all!

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ALLURE OF THE ANDES - Awe-inspiring landscapes, formidable, snow-capped peaks, parched plateaus, glaciers, salt-flats and rushing rivers, the Andes is an incredible environment that Thomas Schilter, son of the Sol y Luna founders, has made his playground.

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CHINCHERO - During your stay at Sol y Luna, explore this fascinating village, a thriving community home to a bustling market, Inca palaces and ruins, colonial churches, and a textile centre home to artisan weavers.

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FORCE FOR GOOD - Providing underprivileged children with education, pastoral care and emotional support in Peru's Sacred Valley, the SyL Foundation is the raison d'etre for all we do at Hotel Sol y Luna - check out the new website here!

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PERUVIAN PASO - Since the first horses were brought to South America the conquistadors in the 1530s, horses recognised for their endurance and grace have been selectively bred, giving rise to the remarkable Peruvian Pasos we know today.

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EXPLORE - On foot, by horse, cycling, kayaking or even paragliding; whatever your favoured mode of travel, there's a huge amount to see and do in Peru's Sacred Valley

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MORAY & MARAS - Two extraordinary sites, both within easy reach of Sol y Luna, sit high on the plateau of Peru's Sacred Valley. Easily combined in to one outing, these awe-inspiring spots are not to be missed!

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