Where and what is Sachamama Jardin/Don Francisco Montes Shuna

"Don Francisco Montes Shuna is an expert at designing a retreat to suit the needs of each individual aspirant. Retreats can last a few days, a few weeks, a few months and in some cases a few years. Each retreat requires the aspirant to intensely prepare before coming to the jungle....

Much of Iquitos' appeal derives from its being the starting point for excursions into the rainforest, but the town is an interesting place in its own right, if only for the lively local people and magnificent rubber boom architecture. Like Manaus, Iquitos evolved into an almost European city during the rubber boom. Many of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century buildings are decorated with Portuguese tiles (azulejos), some of which are brilliantly extravagant in their Moorish inspiration. The Casa Kahn, on block 1 of Sargento Lores is a particularly fine example. Sachamama Ethnobotanical Garden was founded in 1990 by Francisco Montes Shuna, a well-known Amazonian ethnobotanist and cousin of famed Peruvian visionary artist Pablo Amaringo Shuna. The Garden is located about an hour outside of Iquitos, Peru. It is a nicely-conceived conservatory focusing on the vast array of medicinal plants for which the upper Amazon basin is famous. It is rapidly becoming an important learning center for local and international visitors. The Garden's botanical inventory presently exceeds one thousand species of medicinal and culturally-important plants."

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