Trip: Footprints Peru
There are [11] stories from my trip: Footprints Peru
PERU | Monday, 27 Aug 2007 | Views [2820] | Comments [1]
Before we leave the
village
of
Quelqanqa
, we take one last tour of the sites laying (quite physical) tribute to
the successes of our manual labor. We walk down the valley to visit the
new stone bridge and ... Read more >
Tags: footprints, peru, philosophy of travel
PERU | Monday, 27 Aug 2007 | Views [3254]
Our bridge is only a few hundred hauled-stones away
from completion when I wander up the hill following a rumor that the
men of the Quelqanqa are constructing a traditional "earth oven" or
pachamanca in which the feast, celebrating ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
PERU | Wednesday, 22 Aug 2007 | Views [1659]
After a night of tossing through below-freezing temperatures, the sun finally rises. And as I peer out of my tent to watch it chase away the shadows, melt the frost and fill our valley with fuzzy light and flushing warmth – I clearly understand, and ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
PERU | Monday, 20 Aug 2007 | Views [1374]
Our first mistake is thinking that we’ve come to organize and/or manage; our first lesson is realizing that the locals coordinating this project are professionally skilled and competent, and that the most valuable things we really have to offer are ... Read more >
Tags: culture, footprints, peru
PERU | Monday, 20 Aug 2007 | Views [2492] | Comments [1]
“Oh! It’s just so beautiful! To live in this amazing valley, pulling your meals from your garden, surrounded by your extended family, breathing fresh Andes air with views of glaciated peaks out your windows, all while living so close to the ground and ... Read more >
Tags: andes, footprints, history & politics, peru
PERU | Sunday, 19 Aug 2007 | Views [3663]
Footprint in Peru, Day 6: a welcome to the house of great mountains
a community service project sponsored by World Nomads As
we descend into the valley, I can't help but feel like I'm strolling
through ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
PERU | Wednesday, 15 Aug 2007 | Views [1458]
In my defense, I have to point out that it really should have been the responsibility of Javier and Jairo to inquire as to my personal definition of “favorable weather” before asking me to make the offering to the Apus. In consideration of their logistical ... Read more >
Tags: Snow
PERU | Monday, 13 Aug 2007 | Views [2504]
Veronica & her Apus “I knew you were better as soon as your laugh woke me up,” declares Javier. Indeed,
while my mental facilitates napped through a 13-hour siesta, my body,
with the assistance ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
PERU | Friday, 10 Aug 2007 | Views [3256]
I call it, “living in my head” and am usually sequestered to this claustrophobically small space under one of the following conditions: my 12th consecutive hour in an office, my 4th cup of coffee in one hour, falling in love or severe physical illness.... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
PERU | Monday, 6 Aug 2007 | Views [3206] | Comments [1]
Plaza de Armas, Cusco, Peru
"Where are you from?"
It’s the same first question every shoe shining boy in the Plaza de Armas has been trained to ask.
"The heavens," I reply in Spanish.
He shakes his head strongly in disagreement and, with ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
PERU | Monday, 6 Aug 2007 | Photo Gallery
Footprints Community Service Project in Peru
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