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Everything You Should Know About Psychedelic Travel Experiences

Psychedelic travel is a distinct mode of travel that goes beyond ordinary physical movement, drawing visitors into a different realm.

Faith Katunga • Apr 29, 2024

The quest for self-discovery continues to grow in society, as does the desire for specific experiences that smoothly integrate with travel. As a result, the concept of psychedelic travel is gaining popularity. This distinct mode of travel goes beyond ordinary physical movement, drawing visitors into a world to explore and develop their consciousness. 

The allure of psychedelic trips stems from their potential to open minds to new realities. This form of travel provides a prism through which things seem more vivid and meaningful while enhancing our capacity for connection and understanding. It’s a trip that forces you to look within, break down barriers, and discover the interconnectedness of everything.

Navigating Psychedelic Travel Safely

Many people gravitate towards psychedelic experiences as a means of self-exploration, seeking insights into their psyche that are often elusive in daily life. These experiences can foster a profound sense of connection to others, nature, and the universe.  Psychedelics’ possible therapeutic use in treating depression and post-traumatic stress disorder is also attracting more and more attention. Psychedelic travel can reawaken a sense of mystery and wonder in a world frequently perceived as lacking enchantment.

While the appeal of psychedelic travel is undeniable, it’s crucial to approach these experiences with respect and caution. Before going on any psychedelic experience, thoroughly research the substance or activity to understand its effects, risks, and legal status. Both your mental state and the surrounding environment significantly impact the quality of your encounter. 

Find a place where you feel safe, at ease, and supported. Seek experiences that provide the supervision of seasoned facilitators or shamans, particularly for first-timers. Even more significant than the event itself may be the time spent reflecting on it and finding ways to incorporate it into your daily life. Keeping a journal or connecting with like-minded others is helpful.

What The Future Looks Like

As society’s understanding and acceptance of psychedelics continue to evolve, so too will psychedelic travel. With ongoing research highlighting the potential benefits of psychedelics for mental health and well-being, these experiences may soon not only be sought after for their novelty but embraced for their healing and transformative power.

In the end, psychedelic travel is about more than just the destinations or substances; it’s about discovery, connection, and transformation. Whether through a shaman-guided ceremony in the Amazon, a dance under the stars in Goa, or a personal journey of self-reflection, it offers a path to experiencing the world — and ourselves — in profoundly new ways.

The Top Destinations for Psychedelic Experiences

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While the legality and social acceptance of psychedelics vary significantly around the globe, specific destinations have become renowned for their open-minded approach and welcoming psychedelic culture. Here are a few spots where travelers seek transformation.

The Amazon Rainforest, South America

• What’s Offered:  Ayahuasca Retreats
• Why It’s Unique:  Deep in the Amazon, traditional shamans guide participants through ceremonial use of ayahuasca, a potent brew known for its profound psychological and spiritual effects.

San Jose del Pacifico, Mexico

• What’s Offered:  Magic Mushroom Retreats
• Why It’s Unique:  This small village in the mountains of Oaxaca is famous for its sacred mushrooms. Indigenous healers, or curanderos, offer guided experiences, allowing travelers to explore their inner landscapes amidst breathtaking natural beauty.
• What’s Offered:  Psychedelic Trance Scene
• Why It’s Unique:  Beyond substances, psychedelic travel can also encompass immersive experiences that alter consciousness. With its all-night dance parties, Goa’s legendary trance scene offers a community celebrating consciousness expansion through music and dance.

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In a mountain town about three hours outside of Mexico City , I sat on the floor of a thatched-roof palapa with blankets wrapped around me as a facilitator (both a researcher and medicine woman) sang soothing chants. A few hours earlier, I had declared my intention for our ayahuasca journey—that I want to live a big, meaningful, impactful life and am willing to release anything that does not serve that vision. By the end of the ceremony, where I took about three cups of the brew during the six hours between sunset and dawn, the message I received was that life is meaningless—that I might as well do whatever I want while I’m here.

To say that I was a little confused and discouraged by that would be an understatement. But eight months later, in a ceremony centered around a different substance—5-meO-DMT, more often called bufo, a substance derived from the parotoid glands of the Bufo Alvarius toad and widely regarded as the most powerful psychedelic in the world—in Tandava Retreats in Tepotzlán, I received the other half of that message. By way of what can only be described as full and total ego death, I came out of the hour-long ceremony with what felt like temporary enlightenment: That we are all given this chance to be human only once, and that we are born from the same place and will return to that place. Even if we can’t rationalize the meaning of life, we might as well live it to the fullest.

According to experts, I’m not alone in my interest in psychedelic retreats. Tommaso Barba— a Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College who has collected survey data from people who have participated in psychedelic retreats and ceremonies—says psychedelic retreats are becoming increasingly popular. Why now? Because a growing body of research into the therapeutic benefits of long-illegal psychedelic compounds is becoming widely available, making their therapeutic use less stigmatized for the first time.

“For most participants, psychedelics aren’t accessible where they live, which makes psychedelic retreats enticing, especially in countries where each substance is either legal or operates in a gray area,” says Barba.

According to his research, the most popular psychedelic retreats are psilocybin (hallucinogenic mushroom) experiences, offered in South America and the Netherlands, where the drug is legal; ayahuasca (a plant containing the powerful psychoactive DMT) ceremonies in South America, where it is considered an indigenous medicine; and bufo in Mexico, where the substance may be consumed. (As of now, there are no countries where LSD- and MDMA-assisted therapeutic retreats are legal, but according to MAPS, the non-profit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, that may soon change .)

Here’s what travelers new to the psychedelic space can generally expect from a ceremony or retreat with each compound. Travelers taking on these experiences should do their research and do so only with a trained expert or retreat company they have thoroughly vetted—one they trust. The journey will vary depending on where you go and who you choose to be your guide.

A shaman guides a ceremony at Rythmia in Costa Rica

Ayahuasca (DMT)

Ayahuasca is usually made from the combination of two or more plants that have historically grown in abundance in the Amazon jungle and can be grown in similar climates around the world: the ayahuasca vine ( Banisteriopsis caapi ), and the chacruna leaf ( Psychotria viridis ), which contains the powerful psychoactive DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine). The mixture is made into a brew, often consumed in the form of a tea, that induces altered states of consciousness. The word ayahuasca comes from the Quechua of Peru and translates to “vine of the soul” or “vine of the spirits.”

The experience: Most ceremonies take place in a maloca , a wooden structure with a thatched roof, and can range from one-night events to multi-day dietas . They usually begin at sunset and end the following morning before dawn, lasting around five to six hours. Participants often drink around three cups of ayahuasca—each about the size of an espresso shot—throughout the night as shamans and healing elders sing icaros , or prayers through song, to facilitate a sense of calm and tranquility. Although every ayahuasca experience is different, most are known to elicit intense visuals, with many participants reporting that they seemed to travel back in time, through eras and lineages, to meet their ancestors. There are also intense bodily reactions: crying, screaming, and purging. Several vetted healing centers throughout Costa Rica offer ayahuasca experiences, including Rythmia , Reunion , and the Soltara Healing Center , which also leads retreats in the Peruvian Andes and the Amazon, one of the vine’s homelands.

Beckley Retreats in Jamaica offers psilocybin ceremonies that incorporate live music.

Mushrooms (Psilocybin)

Certain types of mushrooms contain psilocybin, a naturally occurring, psychoactive chemical found in various species of fungi that grow predominantly in the Americas. Though the use of mushrooms to alter consciousness, invoke healing, and engage in religious and spiritual ceremonies spans the globe and goes back thousands of years—most notably in pre-Columbian cultures such as the Maya, Aztec, Olmec, Mazatec, and Zapotec—it’s now being studied and used in more scientific and therapeutic ways, too. According to the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms , psilocybin is one of the most funded and researched plant medicines. In 2020, Oregon became the first state to approve the adult therapeutic or wellness use of psilocybin, with Colorado legalizing psilocybin in 2022, with more states set to follow.

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The experience: Usually offered in small communities as a self-reflective, introspective modality of healing, traditional psilocybin ceremonies in Mexico begin with a temazcal, or sweat lodge ceremony dating back to Mesoamerican civilizations. Participants are then guided to an outdoor area, usually positioned around a fire pit, to eat the psychedelic mushrooms in their raw form. The mode of consumption varies around the world; for example, during ceremonies with Beckley Retreats in Jamaica, psilocybin is consumed through ginger-lemon tea. Facilitators play live music throughout the experience, which usually lasts around six hours.

Also in Jamaica is MycoMeditations, where all prospective guests undergo a thorough medical screening to ensure they are a good fit for a psilocybin retreat. Other companies leading the field are the Jamaican-owned ONE Retreats by Rose Hill , the largest natural psilocybin producer and the first legal exporter for both researchers and retreat centers, and MycoMeditations , a facility that administers a three-dose protocol in a retreat setting over a one-week period.

Peyote or San Pedro (Mescaline)

Traditionally consumed in religious ceremonies by Indigenous communities throughout the desert plains of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, peyote is a circular cactus that contains the hallucinogen alkaloid mescaline. It is the sacramental medicine of the Native American Church, and was relegalized under federal law in 1994 as an amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978. The top of the cactus contains buttons, which are consumed fresh or dried, are often smoked like tobacco or made into a powder that can be consumed as tea. The San Pedro cactus, which has been used for thousands of years by Andean communities in northern Peru, also contains mescaline and can be consumed for similar medicinal purposes.

The experience: Considered the most gentle of the plant medicine experiences, peyote elicits visual effects in a softer, less confronting manner than ayahuasca and psilocybin. Ceremonies tend to follow similar protocols as ayahuasca and psilocybin and are often done outside, in nature, and around a fire. Participants undergo a set of cleansing rites before they begin their journey with peyote, and are usually given around three opportunities to consume more if desired. Though most Peyote ceremonies occur within closed community groups, there are a few retreat experiences available with the Wixarika community. During a 10-day pilgrimage, participants are invited into the sacred land of the Wixarika people (or Huichol), in the Wirikuta Desert of northern Mexico, where they participate in collecting the medicine and preparing it for use before the ceremonial rites begin.

Tandava Retreats outside Mexico City is known for its four-night bufo retreats with daily breath work and meditation offerings.

Bufo (5-meO-DMT)

Deriving from the parotoid glands of the Sonoran Desert toad—also known as the Bufo Alvarius toad or the Colorado River toad—the compound 5-MeO-DMT, also known as bufo, is a potent psychedelic. While many practitioners believe it’s best to take the secretion directly from the toads, this practice can harm the amphibian, often resulting in its death. That, combined with the fact that drug cartels have been linked to both illegal and unethical harvesting of the toad for the substance, has led to the re-popularization of synthetic bufo, a safer, more ethical alternative that allows practitioners to properly measure dosages.

The experience:  Widely regarded as the most powerful psychedelic in the world, the 5-MeO-DMT experience is singular in its effects. It is not known to elicit visuals as other psychedelics like psilocybin, ayahuasca, or peyote do. Instead, bufo, often called the God Molecule, is known for an effect of complete dissolution, also known as ineffability, where the participant forgets they are a human, or even have a human body or consciousness. Participants often leave with feelings of a deep interconnectedness between themselves and the universe—as if everything is nothing, and nothing is everything.

About an hour outside of Mexico City, in the mystical mountain town of Tepoztlán, Tandava Retreats , helmed by CEO and Founder Joel Brierre and Head of Education Victoria Wueschner, leads groups or individual clients on four-night bufo experiences. Daily breathwork, meditation, and yoga are held in addition to two privately facilitated ceremonies. Each participant can also take advantage of included post-retreat sessions with an integration specialist to further dive into their medicine experience and decipher what it could mean.

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Las Vegas Sphere: Ultimate guide to seats, prices and how to see Dead Forever in 2024

Competing for attention in Las Vegas with neon signs, billboards and mega-resorts that resemble European palaces and Egyptian pyramids is no easy feat.

But an eight-month-old orb with a talent for shapeshifting is stealing a little of their thunder.

Sphere at The Venetian Resort , an entertainment venue that opened September 2023 just off the Las Vegas Strip , has garnered much attention since its debut for its immersive audio-visual experiences.

See the 366-foot-tall venue from the outside at night and it captivates people for its ability to project images from its exterior shell (also called the Exosphere) containing 580,000 square feet of LED lights, whether it's the Earth, the surface of Mars, a blinking eye, or an emoji. It developed a reputation for causing traffic gridlock since the projections began last year during the Fourth of July.

Inside, the venue's 160,000-square-foot display with 16K by 16K resolution displays immersive visuals, backed by the world's largest beamforming audio system, according to The Venetian .

If you're planning a trip to Las Vegas, check our guides on the best ways to get there from Phoenix , free things to do , which hotels offer free parking , and how to check for bedbugs in hotels .

If you can't get to Vegas just yet, the newly opened Caesars Republic Scottsdale hotel and upcoming VAI Resort in Glendale offer the luxury of Vegas in the Valley, though neither has a casino.

Here's everything to know about the Las Vegas Sphere.

What is the Sphere in Las Vegas?

Described on its website as "a next-generation entertainment medium that is redefining the future of live entertainment," Sphere is an immersive venue that uses haptics (seats that can move and vibrate), atmospheric simulations and visual effects to "transport audiences to places real and imagined."

The Sphere Experience, the main attraction inside the Sphere, is a two-part attraction. The first part, guided by a humanoid robot called Aura, includes a 360-degree avatar capture and a 50-foot-high holographic installation.

The second part is a viewing of an immersive film called "Postcard From Earth" by director Darren Aronofsky on Sphere's largest, highest-definition screen. "Postcard From Earth" is described as part nature documentary, part science fiction movie.

Sphere has also hosted concerts, with U2 inaugurating it with a 40-show residency that launched on Sept. 29, 2023. Sporting events are coming as well: UFC President Dana White said in February that he booked Sphere for UFC 306, scheduled for Sept. 14, 2024.

Where is the Sphere in Las Vegas?

Sphere is at the intersection of Sands Avenue and Koval Lane, just off the Las Vegas Strip and about 1 mile east of The Venetian.

Its address is 255 Sands Ave., Las Vegas.

Who owns the Sphere in Las Vegas?

Sphere is owned by Sphere Entertainment Co., which was spun off from Madison Square Garden Entertainment in April 2023.

Can you go inside the Vegas Sphere?

Yes, but it will cost you. Every guest must have a ticket for a show to enter the Sphere.

How many people does the Sphere hold? 

Sphere can seat 17,500 people and has a standing room capacity of 20,000, according to The Venetian .

Do the seats move in the Sphere? 

Of the Sphere's 17,500 seats, 10,000 of them are described as "haptic seats," or seats that are capable of moving and vibrating.

Where are the bad seats in the Sphere? 

Any seats with an overhang of upper levels will obstruct the view of the stage and/or screen.

USA Today's 10Best suggests avoiding certain seats in the far right and far left sections in the 100 level, where rows 30 and higher are completely obstructed by the overhang.

The 200, 300 and 400 levels offer the best seats.

How long does the Sphere Experience last? 

The Sphere Experience lasts just under two hours, with 60 minutes for the interactive experiences and 50 minutes for the "Postcard From Earth" film.

How long will U2 be at the Sphere?

U2 played the final show of its U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere residency on March 2, 2024.

Who is performing at the Sphere in 2024? 

After U2's residency ended, the jam band Phish became the second music act to play Sphere. Their four-show residency ran April 18-21.

Members of Dead & Company, a spinoff of the Grateful Dead featuring former members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart along with singer and guitarist John Mayer, will perform a 24-show Sphere residency called Dead Forever. The residency, which runs from May 16 to July 13, will begin a year after their final tour made a stop in Phoenix .

How much does it cost to go to Sphere Vegas?

It depends on the show and what day you plan to visit.

The Sphere Experience starts at $79 per person during the week and $99 per person on weekends.

Tickets for Dead & Company's Dead Forever residency start at $145 per person.

Is the Sphere worth going to?

Sphere has attracted an assortment of highly positive and highly negative reviews from travelers.

It has a user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars on Google. One user, Phillipe Beaumier , called Sphere "a once in a lifetime experience" and described the immersive audio and visual as "so incredible, you feel like you are part of the travel!"

Tripadvisor users gave Sphere more mixed reviews, with an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars. Most of its bad reviews were critical of the message of the "Postcard From Earth" film in the Sphere Experience.

A one-star review from a Tripadvisor user named Kathryn W. expressed disappointment with the Sphere Experience's humanoid robots and how "a couple of robots that are comparable to (Amazon's virtual assistant) Alexa can't answer a question." Kathryn added that the moving seats "could be mistaken for someone kicking the back of your chair."

Michael Salerno is an award-winning journalist who’s covered travel and tourism since 2014. His work as The Arizona Republic’s consumer travel reporter aims to help readers navigate the stresses of traveling and get the best value for their money on their vacations. He can be reached at  [email protected] . Follow him on X, formerly Twitter:  @salerno_phx .

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