Prior to the session

• Light vegetarian lunch reducing excessive amounts of sugar, salt and ají "chilies" in preparation to receive the plants.
• Alcohol abstinence (48 hours prior to the ceremony)
• Strict abstinence from eating pork (48 hours prior to the ceremony)
• Eat an early lunch, and NO FOOD after 3 p.m.
• Come with warm comfortable clothes and a blanket.

From Cusco

From Cusco you can take a taxi to Pisaq for S/. 35 soles, or the bus (S/.2 soles) from Puputi bus station.

From Pisaq

In Pisaq town tell the taxi driver you want to go to the house "Melissa Wasi" in "Matará". Almost every taxi driver in Pisaq knows "Diego Palma's house". The price for the taxi is S/.3 soles from Pisaq to the house.

From the road to the Pisaq ruins, just after the Hotel Royal Inca turn right into the unpaved road and follow the road for about 300mt until you see the sign "Melissa Wasi".