Machupicchu Travel Guide 2.21

How We Work

the Foundation, registered under Not-for-Profit Organization Act, receives donations for its work from MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL GUIDE, various corporate sponsors, travellers and staff of its supporting organisations. 100% of these funds go towards project development.
identifies project locations by working with MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL GUIDE product and operations team to determine the optimum place along travel itineraries where projects could receive an ideal amount of visitors. Then, within those locations, communities in need are identified in order to ensure projects are benefitting people who have often lacked opportunity.
Funds are used to develop projects through training programs, infrastructure, materials, and equipment needed to ensure projects become viable small businesses. In turn, these small enterprises invest their profits into improvements to the business to generate more employment for their communities, as well as into social and environmental programs. Development goals most common for the communities works with are education, training, employment, health care, conservation and reducing negative environmental impacts.
Behind the social enterprises we help develop are many people directly and indirectly impacted? These include the women, indigenous people, families, youth that we work with directly on training and enterprise kickstarting programs. But it also includes the people who are impacted by the ripple effects – the vegetable farmers that supply the training restaurant in the Sacred Valley, the women’s group that purifies water to sell to the home stays in Lake Atitlan, the coffee producers that work the plantations at the coffee tour in Costa Rica.
TAIPIKALA supporters help start something. And it doesn’t end when the first grant runs out. That is just the beginning. Once the community enterprise is part of the tourism supply chain, the impacts begin to multiply within their own communities, and spread from there. We’ve said before, we believe tourism can be the greatest method of wealth distribution in the world, and we’re out to prove it. Help us harness the power of travel for good.

What Sets Us Apart.

Social enterprise development through TAIPIKALA is unique because projects are incorporated directly into the tourism supply chain through MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL GUIDE itineraries, becoming self-sustaining, and enabling communities to invest income generated back into their own development goals.

As a business-backed non-profit, we offer something different than traditional charities that often provide only short term relief. We have the power of a social enterprise behind us; we are a non profit that can bring the market to make these businesses successful and create jobs — the most powerful tool proven to alleviate poverty.


Where other non profits think on a 3-5 time horizon to generate positive results, our impact is more immediate through our market driven approach; usually within the first six months to one year. We have continual contact and support through MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL GUIDE network of CEOs (tour leaders), on the ground staff, and travellers. In some cases we have been in these communities for more than a decade. TAIPIKALA partners with local non profit organizations who understand the local culture and can identify local needs.


Gregg Braden

“taipikala Tours your willingness to create new adventures and your commitment to take such good care of us we consider among the great blessings in our lives. You have made it possible for us to open up some of the world’s most sacred sites to the eyes and hearts of many of those who trust us to guide them there. I consider your support staff the finest in the industry”

Gregg Braden

JOSE QUILLA HUAMAN, founder of TAIPIKALA Tours, and ROXANA APAZA,MALERNI CALLAÑAUPA MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL GUIDE.

are recognized as the foremost international authorities MACHUPICHU TRAVEL GUIDE and ancient healing sites. They have years of first-hand experience in creating and leading spirit-centered excursions to the world’s most spiritual and powerful places. LIC. JOSE QUILLA HUAMAN was inspired to create TAIPIKALA Tours. almost 15 years ago while traveling in the BOLIVIA TIAHUANACO CULTURE.

MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL GUIDE is the oldest and largest transformational and tour organization in the world. For almost 5 years since LIC. JOSE QUILLA HUAMAN first coined the term “TAIPIKALA”, unique experiential travel programs have been offered. Beyond taking you to the world’s most breathtaking spots, you will participate in the extraordinary energy and power of these sacred sites. You will not only see and visit the power places, you will experience them.

With TAIPIKALA Tours 5 years of experience in creating, planning, and executing transformational and spiritually based international travel programs, speakers and many organizations from past travel program events have nothing but enthusiasm and excitement when they speak of the event they participated in with us. One point stands out…The synergy created at these events from joining people of like mind from all corners of the globe at a Power Place provide once in a lifetime “peak” moments.

MACHUPICCHU TRAVEL GUIDE offers a unique product in the tour and conference of energy life of incas. Our unique international travel programs and seminars have received frequent media coverage, including spots in “The MACHUPICCHU CITY ”, “National Geographic’s Traveler Magazine”, “Newsweek”, “USA Today”, “Time Magazine”, ” New Woman”, “The Wall Street Journal”, “The Los Angeles Times”, and “Longevity”, to name a few.


Marlene callañaupa was a professor of textile weaving at the California School of Professional textile of the incas and at United States International University, both in San Diego. sha has taught and lectured at the cusco Universities and other universities throughout the West, on healing, ancient healing methods including the laying of hands, and other related areas.


MARLENE Weiss creates and designs the travel programs and is in charge of the on site tour. She is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s outstanding tour managers. Her twenty years experience, from 1970 – 1990, as a teacher textile and shaman Practitioner, including an advanced degree from the University of cusco at UNSAC, provided a rich background in attending to the deep personal, physical, and emotional needs of others. Her spiritual sensitivity to the energy of the sites coupled with her natural compassion of the inca culture and tireless efforts to fulfill each individual’s travel dreams combine to create magical experiences for TAIPIKALA travelers.

MARLENA extensive studies and practice of holistic health and dating back to the early 1985’s, earned her listings in both Who’s Who of Peruvian at village of chinchero inca place Women, and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.


JOSE & MARLENA Weiss’ unique backgrounds makes it possible forTAIPIKALA Tours. to envision, create and offer travel programs unlike those available from any other travel company.