{"id":824,"date":"2023-06-01T16:12:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasqolqas.com\/?p=10950"},"modified":"2025-10-08T01:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:50:34","slug":"travel-and-leisure-on-my-first-hiking-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasqolqas.com\/en_us\/blog\/travel-and-leisure-on-my-first-hiking-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAVEL+LEISURE – I Went on My First Solo Hiking Trip in Peru \u2014 Here’s How You Can, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Las Qolqas in Travel + Leisure<\/em>: Finding Stillness in the Sacred Valley<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When Travel + Leisure<\/em> writer Maya Kachroo-Levine<\/strong> set out on her first solo hiking trip through Peru, she didn\u2019t expect to find stillness in the rain \u2014 or a tented sanctuary waiting beside the river.
Her story, \u201cI Went on My First Solo Hiking Trip in Peru \u2014 Here\u2019s How You Can, Too\u201d<\/em><\/a>, captures something we hold close at Las Qolqas Eco Resort<\/strong>: the art of slowing down in nature, and discovering how solitude can feel like belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Journey Through the Sacred Valley<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Maya\u2019s journey began on the high trails of the Sacred Valley, hiking toward Pumamarka<\/strong> with her guide, Porfy Carbajal<\/strong>, a native Quechua who knows these paths as his own backyard.
The climb was steep, the clouds heavy with Andean rain \u2014 the kind that soaks you completely, but somehow makes the landscape more alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That evening, she arrived at Las Qolqas<\/strong>, where soft lights glowed through canvas walls, dinner was served by the fire, and the valley outside pulsed quietly in the dark.
In her words, \u201cIt\u2019s a really nice place to do nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Luxury of Doing Nothing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

That phrase \u2014 the luxury of doing nothing<\/em> \u2014 feels like the essence of what we created Las Qolqas for.
Here, \u201cnothing\u201d means watching the mist lift off the mountains. It means letting time pass slowly enough to hear the river change its tone after the rain.
It\u2019s a long conversation over Andean wine, or a quiet breakfast of quinoa pancakes before the morning hike to Machu Picchu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For solo travelers especially, Las Qolqas offers that delicate balance between solitude and connection \u2014 a space where you can be completely alone, yet never feel lonely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Place to Return To \u2014 In Spirit and in Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In her Travel + Leisure<\/em> piece, Maya describes the rhythm of a solo adventure: the exhilaration of hiking in silence, the kindness of local guides, the ritual of returning to warmth after a cold summit.
Her stay at Las Qolqas marked the midpoint of that journey \u2014 a pause between effort and reward, trail and train, Machu Picchu and the world beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For us, that is exactly what we hope each guest finds here: a pause<\/strong>. A moment between worlds where the Sacred Valley can do its quiet work \u2014 grounding, softening, reminding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the Full Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re grateful to Travel + Leisure<\/em> for capturing the spirit of solo travel in the Andes, and for including Las Qolqas as part of that experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you\u2019re dreaming of your own Sacred Valley journey \u2014 solo or shared \u2014 we\u2019ll be here, where the mountains meet the river, ready to welcome you home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What it’s like in Peru right now, and how you can plan a hiking trip as a solo female traveler, according to someone who’s done it.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasqolqas.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasqolqas.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasqolqas.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasqolqas.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasqolqas.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lasqolqas.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/lasqolqas.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasqolqas.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasqolqas.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasqolqas.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasqolqas.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}