"We believe that love and understanding for nature comes through living amidst it."
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Inca Trail 4 days
Peru Luxury 11 days
Lake Sandoval Lodge 3 days
PERU ROUND TRIP 16 days
Peru Nature Discovery 21 days
Peru Round Trip. 13 days
COLCA CANYON TREKKING TOUR 4 days
ALPAMAYO FULL LOOP 10 days
PISCO PEAK (5752 masl) 4 days
Mont Huascaran South (6768 masl) expedition. 6 days
Volunteering
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Welcome to Machete Tours - Our world, our responsibility
At Machete Tours our main motivation for working in tourism is to acquaint our visitors with the culture, history, arts, crafts, cuisine and respect for our Mother Earth. We know that in times of increasing globalization, the protection, interpretation and preservation of cultural heritage is very important for any society or region in the world; so it is essential to communicate the significance and necessity of their conservation by involving the local host population, the tourism agencies and to all visitors. Machete Tours believes that tourism is one of the most important means for cultural exchange by providing a personal experience not on what remains of the past, but also about the life of our societies. For communities and towns of the Coast, Highland and the Peruvian Amazon, tourism is increasingly seen as a positive force for conservation of nature and cultural manifestations; also as an essential economic factor of development in places where the aid from the government is almost non-existent.
Tourism, benefits everyone.
Machete Tours believes that through Ecotourism we encourage local people to practice responsible tourism and get direct benefits of it. Example of this is that in all our Rainforest tours the land transportation is owned by families from Cusco, the river transportation owned by families from the village of Atalaya (Manu Park), the lodge is managed and owned by Machete Tours giving direct benefits to the local community. In our Andean trekking tours we are working with communities that are organized into groups that provide us with the muleteers and horsemen used in the tours as well as family own mules and horses for carring all our tours expedition gear. This Andean association has over 500 families and more than 16 Andean communities have direct economic benefits for this responsible ecotourism.
Our trading partners
In all our destinations we work with travel agencies that maintain equality principles with nature and those working staff. These business partners have maintained since the initiation of our agency and it is because we believe in the permanence and continuity of our business partners. Hotels with whom we work in different cities are environmentally friendly and are permanently in search of to minimize the negative impact to the environment by using ambient awareness measures both for their guests and staff in the use of the Hotel services, the coherent use of water, the necessary use of electricity and the consciousness of necessary use of towels and sheets.
We welcome you to our wonderful destinations; feel the satisfaction that with Machete Tours you will be traveling with a travel agency with a high sense of social, cultural and ecological responsibility.
Ronald Y. Rengifo Pezo
Machete Tours
Director and Manager
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