– Caya Shobo Center & Facilities –
Tranquil Oasis
Caya Shobo is a beautiful 9 hectare property nestled in the gentle Amazon rainforest just 15km from Iquitos, 20 minutes drive from Iquitos airport. Flowering gardens & attractive ponds are surrounded by birds & other jungle wildlife. Safe & tranquil, the center has pleasant walks & lagoons nearby.
Comfortable Rooms
Comfortable, spacious, clean accommodations can host up to 11 guests including 6 large size standard rooms with private bathrooms, and 4 stylish hard-wood Tambos (shared bathroom) located deeper in the jungle for a more immersive jungle experience, perfect for isolation master plant dieta healing & learning.
Maloka & Medicine
Our gorgeous Maloka is a 40ft traditional ceremonial structure where Ayahuasca ceremonies are held. Guests are welcome to meditate and practice yoga in the day. Plant Medicine and Massage Huts, Flower Bath cabins and lovely Plant Gardens surround.
Wi-fi & Chill Zone
The large open-spaced dining hall has a lovely chill-zone with an attractive outlook on the ponds and gardens. Here you can access wi-fi and chat quietly with other guests. Sometimes the maestros and maestras like to hang out too, or present their artisanry for sale.
FOOD & WATER
Every day our in-house chef prepares a variety of delicious Ayahuasca-friendly and Dieta-friendly meals with freshly bought ingredients from Iquitos markets. Breakfast typically includes oatmeal pancakes or eggs, fresh fruit salad and yummy ‘chapo smoothie’ (with sweet platano manzana). Lunches include a variety of dishes to suit different preferences, including salads and other vegetable dishes, doncella or boquichico fish, or locally-sourced chicken. We don’t include wheat products in our meals, and we are happy to accommodate other special dietary requirements. Please let us know when making your reservation.
Caya Shobo is off-grid, and therefore not connected to a municipal supply of potable water. In our showers and sink taps the water comes from our own lagoon which is fed by a constantly running stream. This water is not potable, and may sometimes be discolored with natural sediment that is stirred up with rain. It is safe for showering and washing hands. For drinking water, we buy filtered water from an Iquitos supplier who we consider to have the best quality and best tasting water in the area.
Caya Shobo also has its own medicine plant gardens and in-house pharmacy where plant medicines and cleansing flower baths are prepared by Wilder, our resident expert medicine plant pharmacist.
We source most of our plant products fresh from our own medicine plant gardens, or for more unusual dieta prescriptions we always source from highly reputable local suppliers.
Our potent Ayahausca brew is known as amongst the best you can find in Peru. We always work with either Ayahuasca Amarillo or Ayahuasca Cielo vine, fresh chacruna, and pure filtered water.
Wilder prepares Marosa Tea for a guest entering Dieta with this Master Teaching Plant.
There is also a massage hut, and lovely outside bath huts for administering of flower and vapor bath treatments in absolute privacy (as well as private bathrooms in most rooms).
Guests enjoy energetic cleansing flower bath at Caya Shobo’s flower bath hut three times a week.
Caya Shobo is home to two ponds, and a short walk outside the center brings guests to a local swimming lagoon perfect for a cooling dip in its still, pure waters.
And Caya Shobo’s sandy walking paths, lined by flowering medicine plants are a well-loved feature of the retreat center.
WHICH ROOM TYPE IS RIGHT FOR ME?
STANDARD ROOMS
There are 7 standard rooms at Caya Shobo, situated alongside one another. These are spacious adobe/concrete structures located altogether – each containing a double bed and ample personal space, plus a small private bathroom all to yourself.
The rooms are located just a short walk from the dining hall, the Maloka and the general walking paths which are continuously maintained against the vigorous growth of the jungle.
Most guests who have never been to the jungle before and may be feeling tentative on their first trip tend to choose a standard room. They are also priced slightly lower relative to our Tambos.
JUNGLE TAMBOS
There are 4 Jungle Tambos at Caya Shobo, all isolated a little deeper in the forested areas of the property. These are very tranquil spaces made with beautiful hard-woods and walled with mosquito netting for a more immersive jungle experience.
Each Tambo has a generous amount of space for 1 guest and contains 1 double bed (also covered with mosquito netting). There is no private bathroom, but a shared bathroom is located near the Maloka.
Typically more experienced guests who are returning to the jungle and are comfortable with the night-time jungle walk will opt for a Jungle Tambo. They are ideal for isolation Master Plant Dieta work. Due to popular demand, they are also priced slightly higher relative to the regular rooms – see Book Now for more information.
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Rafael was born into a family of Ayahuasca Curanderos in the Shipibo village of Santa Rosa de Dinamarca, 5 hours journey by riverboat to the south of Pucallpa. Growing up immersed in the world of Ayahuasca, he observed his parents and the men and women of his extended family always working in healing ceremonies and guiding plant dietas. At the age of 18, his curiosity to learn more about this path inspired him to open his first plant dieta, and he has since been learning and dieting with different master plants over the past 15 years.
Meeting Walter you immediately recognize his natural warmth and humility as a person, as well as his impressive capability as an experienced Onánya Maestro healer. His beautiful, lower toned voice and variety of melodic Icaros can transport you to a place of peace and reconciliation with your life’s experiences and your healing path. Walter is always solid in the middle of the storm.
Maestra Maricela is a highly experienced Shipiba Onánya curandera and Raomi herbalist. Born in the Alto Ucayali river village of Roya, south of Pucallpa, her father Nicolas Vardales is a well known Shipibo medicine man with a strong famileal lineage of medicine knowledge. At age 13, in receiving treatment for some serious health issues of her own, Maricela began to learn about the healing properties of Amazonian medicine plants. She continued dieting with different master plants until she started working with Ayahuasca in her early 30’s.
Immersed in the medicine world her entire life, Maestra Lucinda is the eldest daughter of renowned Shipibo Onánya Maestro Pascual Mahua Ochavano, born in the Shipibo village of Paoyhan or ‘Water of the Pearls’ located on the banks of the beautiful Ucayali river, north of Pucallpa. When she was a tiny infant of 4 months old her father opened her first learning dieta to bring her the advanced knowledge of the Noya Rao “Tree of light” of her ancestors.
Orlando also belongs to the famous family Mahua. His great-grandfather Manuel Mahua was renowned as one of the most powerful Onánya shaman in the entire history of the Shipibo tribe. Manuel’s daughter Manuela, grandmother to Orlando, is also a well – known living Onánya Maestra. Manuela brought up Orlando from early childhood and opened his first medicine plant dieta at age 7. 
Fernando Levi, also born in the village of Paoyhan, is the grandson of Pascual Mahua, and, like his father, his grandfather and many generations before him, Fernando has inherited the Shipibo name “Sani Piko” which means “The Great Medicine Men.” This legacy of ancestral knowledge and the discipline Fernando has brought to developing its power within himself is clearly evident in his Icaros, in his medicine and also in his extensive knowledge of master plant dieta for healing and learning.
Francisco (or Pancho) has been working with the Shipibo medicine path since his early 40’s, and is now in his late 60s.
As a teenager, Pablo felt the call of the medicine, but without access to knowledgeable teachers in his own family or community, he pursued his own learning path with Ayahuasca in the way of the ancient Shipibo Maestro Onánya – by entering the jungle alone and following the call of the plants in isolation dieta.