To ensure a comfortable stay at the center, you should bring the following items:
- Water bottle. 1 liter is sufficient.
- Personal toiletries, including soap, shampoo, toothpaste, razors, tampons, etc.
- Flashlight for use outside of ceremony. Headlamps work very well.
- A small flashlight for use in ceremony. Choose something you can easily shield with your fingers. This could be the same light you use for outside.
- Light-weight shirts suitable for hot weather, and several pairs of shorts.
- A light sweater or jacket for the rare cool nights.
- Bathing suit for flower baths and swimming in our pond.
- Long comfortable pants to wear in ceremony, along with a light sweater. Feeling cold is a common effect of ayahuasca.
- Mosquito repellent for use in jungle walks.
- Sunscreen.
- Light hat for protection from sun.
- Light-weight rain garments.
- Sandals for walking around the property.
- Comfortable closed shoes for jungle walks - sport shoes work well. Heavy hiking boots are not needed
- Journal and pens for writing, or art supplies for drawing.
- Books to read (though we have many at the center). We will greatly appreciate any books that can be left at the center.
- Camera for taking pictures.
- Extra batteries for your flashlight and camera.
- Small padlock for the strongbox in your room.
- If anyone can bring a gift of white sage for smudging, we will greatly appreciate it!
*** Please do not bring malaria pills. They are incompatable with ayahuasca, and are not necessary at our center. Malaria is not a problem in the Iquitos area.
*** Please do not use headlamps for flashlights. They routinely end up shining in other people's faces, and also into the moloca when people are returning from the toilets.