Trip: Peru
There are [16] stories from my trip: Peru
PERU | Thursday, 4 Oct 2007 | Views [306]
Has it been a month already? Amidst a swirl of activity—of sightseeing, volunteering, and the buzz of day-to-day living—the time has flown by and already feels like a dream. After a month in Peru, I find the prospect of leaving bittersweet. There are ... Read more >
Tags: voluntourism, adventures
PERU | Wednesday, 3 Oct 2007 | Views [467]
Today was the last day at the Pumamarca school for many of us volunteers. Knowing this would be the last time that I would see the school and the children (for now, anyway), I was plagued by a feeling of melancholy from the moment I woke up in the morning.... Read more >
Tags: voluntourism, adventures
PERU | Tuesday, 2 Oct 2007 | Views [780]
Day 1 The day of our Inca Trail trip had finally arrived. The first day began in the Sacred Valley about 40 minutes outside of Ollantaytambo where there is a checkpoint at which you present your ticket and your passport. This may sound a little odd, ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, adventures
PERU | Wednesday, 26 Sep 2007 | Views [283]
Today we had a full day working at the school at our various duties (for me, that meant English grades 5 & 6, then assisting with hygiene), and then we went to work on Hernan´s house. For those of you who are actually reading all of these entries, ... Read more >
Tags: voluntourism, adventures
PERU | Tuesday, 25 Sep 2007 | Views [666]
So maybe the idea of alpaca steaks, alpaca diane, and alpaca carpacchio was too much to endure. If so, perhaps you´ll find cuy—another regional favorite—more palatable, no? I took this photo outside of Pisac when we stopped at a traditional chicha house ... Read more >
Tags: food & eating, adventures, sightseeing
PERU | Tuesday, 25 Sep 2007 | Views [782]
I just returned last night from a long weekend in Puno and Lake Titicaca with two other volunteers, Genelle and Claudine. It was a little vacation from vacation, if you will. A week ago a meteorite crash-landed outside the city of Puno and soon thereafter ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, adventures, food & eating
PERU | Friday, 21 Sep 2007 | Views [262]
The other day we conducted our first home visit. A home visit is when the volunteers, along with Ginny and Iris (the organization´s social worker), visit a home in the Pumamarca village to check on their progress. These are typically families who have ... Read more >
Tags: voluntourism, adventures
PERU | Tuesday, 18 Sep 2007 | Views [527]
Sometimes food poisoning isn´t merely food poisoning when it´s...well, you´ll see. After three days of illness, Ginny (our volunteer coordinator) took me and two other sick volunteers to see a doctor in Cuzco—someone the organization trusts and works ... Read more >
Tags: doctors hospitals & health, adventures, voluntourism
PERU | Saturday, 15 Sep 2007 | Views [270]
It isn´t all about work here in Peru. In fact, our first full week contained plenty of sightseeing as we eased ourselves into being in Peru, being together as a group, acclimatizing to the altitude, and becoming accustomed to the Pumamarca school in general.... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, adventures, doctors hospitals & health
PERU | Thursday, 13 Sep 2007 | Views [770]
Okay, we didn´t eat the exact one in the photo, but alpaca is a popular regional dish in the mountainous areas for obvious reasons: it´s what´s available. Despite the fact that the “cute factor” might make this meat unpalatable for us Westerners, I am ... Read more >
Tags: food & eating, adventures
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