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Aracari Pioneering bespoke private and luxury journeys
in South America since 1996

Authentic, unique and creative experiences in Peru, Bolivia and the Galapagos Islands.

03/11/2026

Returning. The second chapter in our thirty-year story, and it belongs to the people and places we have kept coming back to, some of them for almost as long as Aracari has existed.

One of those began on the Inca Trail in the late 1990s. Eusebio was a cook on those first treks, and through him we came to know his family, the Quispes of Patakancha, a village at 3,700 meters above the Sacred Valley.

We have returned ever since. The same families, the same mountains, the children we first met now grown and welcoming us with children of their own.

In the old camcorder footage here, Marisol’s young son hands out medical supplies alongside Eusebio, in the first days of a medicine cabinet our travelers helped the village keep stocked. That boy is grown now too, and the friendship has outlasted the cameras that filmed it.

Some of these bonds we measure in generations. More of that story soon.

The full story is in the link in our bio.

16/10/2026

What does it take to turn a potato into something you remember?

At 3,740 meters, Manuel Choqque crosses the pollen of one potato flower onto another by hand, the way a bee would, until the color comes out: blue, red, purple, colors no chemical could ever fake. He’s found more than 380 varieties this way, grown in the garden where he was born.

Manuel is a fourth-generation farmer in Huatata, high above Chinchero. You’ll taste his potatoes cooked in a huatia, an underground oven, seasoned only with salt from Maras, and try the w**e he makes from oca and mashua.

To sit at his table is to taste patience.

In the 90s, when Aracari began, the great sites that lay beyond Machu Picchu were still largely left to the mountains, r...
13/10/2026

In the 90s, when Aracari began, the great sites that lay beyond Machu Picchu were still largely left to the mountains, reachable only on foot, only over days.

In search of the underdiscovered, Marisol went in the only way there was, days on foot with tents carried by porters, in the company of guides who read these ranges like a language. Many of them walk with us still.

And she was up there in good company. John Hemming, whose Conquest of the Incas remains the definitive telling of the Spanish conquest, had become a friend after the two first met in London, and he came to walk some of those early trails at her side.

Word of those journeys traveled far beyond the mountains, as far as the British press. Some of that story is in the frames above.

The paths are busier now. What draws us down them has not changed. To go a little further than everyone else, and to find what the hurrying miss, is still the whole reason we travel.

For years, most journeys to this part of the world stopped at Peru. Bolivia sat right alongside it, full of places worth...
07/10/2026

For years, most journeys to this part of the world stopped at Peru. Bolivia sat right alongside it, full of places worth reaching, and yet travelers rarely went.

Marisol made her way to corners of the country almost no one was visiting then, places that took real effort to get to, and often a good deal of discomfort to match.

A friend told her, plainly, that Bolivia was not a tourist destination. She kept going, and in time began building journeys there for others.

That is the thread through all of these early years. Going where the roads got harder, and finding it was worth it.

Thirty years on, it still shapes how we travel.

This is one story of Remembering. There are many more, at the link in our bio.

The Laguna de los Cóndores takes real effort to reach… This is one story of Remembering.  ✍️A lake buried deep in the cl...
01/10/2026

The Laguna de los Cóndores takes real effort to reach…

This is one story of Remembering. ✍️

A lake buried deep in the cloud forest of Chachapoyas, days of hard travel from the nearest road, in a corner of Peru that barely showed up on a traveler’s map in the 1990s.

Marisol went anyway, and more than once.

What waited there was a discovery still unfolding, Chachapoya history coming out of the ground after centuries.

Reached only by those who knew the right people and were willing to go the distance to see it.

Back in London, Marisol began to talk about what she had found.

Many of the places she first spoke of then remain at the heart of what we do today.

The original invite for Canning House.

This is one story of Remembering.

There are many more, at the link in our bio.

28/09/2026

An afternoon spent inside another way of seeing.

A hand traces the forest; a song calls back to it. A pattern remembers a river. A process that refuses to be rushed.

Wilma Maynas lives and works from Cantagallo, in Lima’s Rímac district, home to Peru’s largest urban Shipibo-Konibo community: families who left the Amazon behind but fiercely carried its culture with them.

She paints kené, drawn from the same visions that have guided Shipibo shamans for generations.

To stand this close to something so patiently made is a privilege.

Wilma’s work is now part of the Aracari Gallery. Link in bio.

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The best places rarely announce themselves.You find them by going where others don’t, by asking one more question, by fo...
26/09/2026

The best places rarely announce themselves.

You find them by going where others don’t, by asking one more question, by following a name someone hands you and seeing where it leads.

That is how Marisol found Suasi thirty years ago, and it is how Aracari has traveled ever since.

Follow the people. Trust the detour. Believe in someone’s dream before the rest of the world catches up.

Thirty years on, Martha and Marisol are still dear friends, and Suasi is still one of the places that shaped how we see this country.

This is one story of Remembering. There are many more, at the link in our bio.

The best places rarely announce themselves. You find them by going where others don’t, by asking one more question, by f...
24/09/2026

The best places rarely announce themselves. You find them by going where others don’t, by asking one more question, by following a name someone hands you and seeing where it leads.

That is how Marisol found Suasi thirty years ago, and it is how Aracari has traveled ever since.

Follow the people. Trust the detour. Believe in someone’s dream before the rest of the world catches up.

Thirty years on, Martha and Marisol are still dear friends, and Suasi is still one of the places that shaped how we see this country.

This is one story of Remembering. There are many more, at the link in our bio.

Today, Aracari turns thirty.Thirty years of journeys. Of roads that led somewhere no map promised, of strangers who beca...
22/09/2026

Today, Aracari turns thirty.

Thirty years of journeys. Of roads that led somewhere no map promised, of strangers who became friends, of a country revealing itself slowly to someone patient enough to look.

It is a long story, and today feels like the day to tell it from the beginning.

It starts with a question. How to show Peru with care, and through the people who knew it best.

Marisol spent years discovering the answer, crossing the country by bus, arriving at its festivals, following one introduction to the next, until those introductions became friendships, and the friendships became a way of traveling all their own.

That was the beginning of Aracari. Thirty years on, we’re going back to where it started. A story in four chapters, and the first is live today at the link in bio.

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