Tourism in Peru

In this May 6, 2018, photo, Shaman Pablo Flores pours ayahuasca into a plastic cup during a session in Nuevo Egipto, a remote village in the Peruvian Jungle. Flores offers the ayahuasca it to Italian national Pamela Moronci, three ounces of a bitter, muddy brew made of psychedelic vines.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 6, 2018 photo, Italian national Pamela Moronci meditates after drinking ayahuasca during a session in Nuevo Egipto, a remote village in the Amazonian jungles of Peru. Moronci closes her eyes while a traditional healer starts to chant in the indigenous Shipiba language. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 6, 2018, photo, Italian national Pamela Moronci drinks ayahuasca, monitored by Shaman Pablo Flores, during a session in Nuevo Egipto a remote village in the Peruvian Amazon. “The plant told me I had a problem in my ovaries that I was not aware of, and that is what I am working on now,” she said. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 6, 2018, photo, Italian national Pamela Moronci, exhales smoke during an ayahuasca session in Nuevo Egipto a remote village in the Peruvian Amazon. After the ritual Moronci said that she relived happy moments of her childhood, and also realized that she had health problems that had to be addressed. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 6, 2018 photo, Shaman Pablo Flores blows tobacco smoke at Pamela Moronci during an ayahuasca session in Nuevo Egipto, a remote village in the Peruvian Amazon. The 30 year old businesswoman said she first tried ayahuasca in Italy, as she fought depression, and credits it with “finding truths” about herself that regular meditation could not provide. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 6, 2018 photo, Italian national Pamela Moronci attends an ayahuasca session in Nuevo Egipto, at a remote village in the Peruvian Amazon. Every year thousands of tourists visit jungle retreats in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador to try ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic elixir made of native plants that is thought to heal some mental illnesses, and help those on a spiritual journey. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 6, 2018 photo, Italian national Pamela Moronci raises her hands during an ayahuasca session in Nuevo Egipto, a remote village in the Amazonian jungles of Peru. The ayahuasca plant contains DMT, an alkaloid that causes strong hallucinations. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 5, 2018 photo, Shaman Pablo Flores brews ayahuasca in Pucallpa, Peru. What’s known in the Quechua languages as the vine of the soul, or death, depending on the translation, it has been used for hundreds of years by indigenous communities throughout the Amazon basin, mostly in religious rituals. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 8, 2018 photo, children study at a run down school in the Amazonian shantytown of Victoria Gracia, Peru. In April Olivia Arevalo, a plant healer of the Shipibo-Konibo tribe, was allegedly shot to death by a Canadian man in Victoria Garcia. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 5, 2018 photo, Shaman Pablo Flores embraces Pamela Moronci, after an ayahuasca session in Nuevo Egipto, a remote village in the Peruvian Amazon. “Pablo is an angel,” she says, referring to Flores. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 8, 2018 photo, a porter carries bunches of plantains on the dock of the port of Pucallpa, on the Peruvian Amazon. Among the many products that arrive to the port, ayahuasca is one of the many staples. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 6, 2018 photo, children enjoy the waters of the Ucayali river, in San Francisco, a remote village in the Peruvian Amazon. “The Amazon has long had a frontier economy, based on the exploitation of its natural resources,” said Ana Echazu-Boschemeier, an anthropology professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. “To some extent, shamanic tourism is replicating this savage logic of extractive industries where people and nature have little protection,” she said. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 8, 2018 photo, a photo of Olivia Arevalo, an octogenarian plant healer of the Shipibo-Konibo tribe, stands on her grave, at the cemetery in the Amazonian shantytown of Victoria Gracia, Peru. Arevalo was allegedly killed by a 41-year-old Canadian who traveled to Peru to study hallucinogenic medicine. The man was was bludgeoned to death in broad daylight by an angry mob in retaliation for her murder. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 4, 2018 photo, black tobacco cigarettes and other material for ayahuasca and Santeria rituals, are displayed for sale in the Pucallpa market, deep in the Amazonian jungle of Peru. In such backwater towns like Pucallpa, aggressive English-speaking louts offering ayahuasca ceremonies greet tourists as they literally come off the boat, while in indigenous markets a liter-sized bottle of the powerful tea fetches as much as $100. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 4, 2018 photo, supplies for ayahuasca and Santeria rituals, are displayed for sale in the Pucallpa market, deep in the Amazonian jungle of Peru. In backwater towns like Pucallpa, aggressive English-speaking louts offering ayahuasca ceremonies greet tourists as they literally come off the boat, while in indigenous markets a liter-sized bottle of the powerful tea fetches as much as $100. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 7, 2018 photo, Shaman Pablo Flores sits in a boat during a trip up the Ucayali river, in a remote area of the Peruvian Amazon. Flores is a former airplane mechanic turned shaman who performs ayahuasca ceremonies for tourists in the tiny village of Nuevo Egipto.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 5, 2018 photo, Shaman Pablo Flores talks to Pamela Moronci before an ayahuasca session in Nuevo Egipto, a remote village in the Peruvian Amazon. Although the Ayahuasca ritual was declared part of Peru’s national heritage in 2008, there are no established guidelines for how a ceremony should be conducted or any agency in charge of overseeing people who carry out the rituals. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)

In this May 6, 2018, photo, Italian national Pamela Moronci smokes a black tobacco cigarette before her ayahuasca session, in Nuevo Egipto a remote village in the Peruvian Amazon. Anthropologist Echazu-Boschemeier says “Tourism is sanitizing ayahuasca. But it has always had many uses.” (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)  (Martin Mejia / AP)