 | El Fin
2009-11-04, Lima, Peru. By: dilleybug | | Our last day in Lima is spent mostly waiting around. I have been thinking a lot about what this trip has meant, and what its lessons to me were.
Lessons about fear, mostly. I flew in a tiny 6 s... |
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| A que hora.... Salimos?
2009-10-23, Yurimaguas, Peru. By: dilleybug | | I wish I could upload photos of our current situation. To put it bluntly - we are in Amazon Hell. Just kidding, it is actually really super amuzing and really funny, in a sitcom sort of way. We are ... |
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 | Welcome to the Jungle!
2009-10-22, Tarapoto, Peru. By: dilleybug | | We were staying in a little town in the middle of the Andes called Chachapoyas where we were able to visit some incredible ruins, that are as large a scale as Machu Pichu. They are interesting and dif... |
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 | Crawling back to civilization...
2009-10-16, Huaraz, Peru. By: dilleybug | | We just finished a four day trek – which felt like a helluva lot more than four days -through the Cordillera Blanca mountain range near Huaraz. It was beatiful, cold, and near death with little to no... |
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 | Combie Driver's Test
2009-10-11, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | Seat belt frayed, deteriorating, tied to the door and throw over your lap so it looks like a functioning life-saving device—check.
Pulling out in front of oncoming traffic with your hand sticking o... |
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| Three Things
2009-10-10, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | [b]Three Things that make me...[/b]
[b].... shake my head in disbelief[/b]
-Combies passing while there is oncoming traffic...the oncoming traffic is assumed to make room for our car. This is esp... |
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 | The glorious Machu Pichu
2009-10-07, aguas calientes, Peru. By: dilleybug | | Pictures ARE coming. Stephens damn camera just died on me. Dammit! Doesnt it know that I need to do something with it Right Now? sigh.
We took a train from Ollayantaytumbo to Aguas Calientes, the l... |
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 | Mashca con Leche
2009-10-01, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | I eat almost all my meals with my host family, but breakfast…that’s mine. I just can’t handle the really oily fried egg that early in the morning. That was until my host mom started making this deli... |
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 | Spanglish
2009-10-01, Cuzco, Peru. By: dilleybug | | Steve and I are taking a week long course in the spanish language this week in Cuzco, which is proving to be very involved and muy bueno. Bueno for me anyway, I am the only one in my class, and they a... |
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 | Karen´s Birthday
2009-09-15, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | My sitemate, Karen, lives on the edge of a protected forest and for the past 2 years has spent every Tuesday working with the women park guards. It took her the first 6 months to convince them that s... |
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 | Bustling Metropolis
2009-09-26, Cuzco, Peru. By: dilleybug | | We have made it to the big city of Cuzco. It has taken a couple of days to get settled in...
I think everywhere one goes, the land - the people - have a sort of pace. A rhythm. One of my favorite t... |
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 | Short and Sweet
2009-09-23, Isla Amantani, Peru. By: dilleybug | | We spent some time taking tours and spent two nights on the Island Amantani. We have loads of lovely photos, but are having difficulty uploadin,... maybe in the next cafe.
The Island was transforma... |
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 | Higher and Higher
2009-09-19, Puno, Peru. By: dilleybug | | If you sing that song from the ghostbusters movie, that is what is going through my mind right now. We are in Puno on the border of Lake Titticacca and are at approximately 12,000 feet elevation. th... |
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 | Revelation
2009-09-14, Arequipa, Peru. By: dilleybug | | I went for a run through the streets of Arequipa. Wearing running shorts and a tank top, and actually running somewhere appeared to be out of sorts for the Peruvian people watching me go by. I was a... |
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| Nothing Witty Comes to Mind...
2009-09-13, Arequipa, Peru. By: dilleybug | | We have been enjoying our time here in this very cosmopolitan town. Actual brewed coffee, vegitarian dishes, and delicious pastry options.
What I notice about my self is a sort of clamming up. A s... |
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 | We Have Photos
2009-09-12, Arequipa, Peru. By: dilleybug | | I was finally able to connect to an inernet portal that would accept my photos. So the past couple of posts have been updated as well. We have arrived in Arequipa, about three hours inland from the c... |
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 | Hi.
2009-09-11, Nazca, Peru. By: dilleybug | | We spent a couple of days in Paracas, a small fishing village south of Lima. It was a cute little town - maybe population 2,000. I am pretty sure Steve and I ate at every single restaurant in the who... |
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 | Have we really only been here for two days?
2009-09-05, Lima, Peru. By: dilleybug | | WTHeck? I can´t believe it has only been two days here in Lima. It feels already as if it were more - the time is already beginning to slow. And the pace of the day is relaxing and full of delicious n... |
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| Arrive!
2009-09-04, Lima, Peru. By: dilleybug | | I wanted to update and let everyone know we have arrived in Lima safe and sound. Everything was seamless, connection flight on time, bags made it to Lima, taxi waiting at the airport, guard at the ga... |
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| "Banker to the Poor"
2009-08-09, Pacora, Peru. By: Fizzlepops | | I just read “Banker to the Poor” by Muhammad Yunus. It has been on my book shelf for months among my books that I really want to read but am just not inspired enough to start. This one in particular... |
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| Pig Flu
2009-07-24, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | So they may have officially changed the name to H1N1 but in Peru it is still know as the pig flu and it has started to spread throughout the country bring mass amounts of fear and panic with it. I ha... |
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 | Fresh from the Amazon jungle...
2009-07-07, Iquitos, Peru. By: julieanna | | My outreach team and I have just returned to modern civilization after 8 days and nights in the Amazon. We visited 5 villages around the area where the Amazon river begins. The only way to access thes... |
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| Third year in Peru
2009-07-17, Pacora, Peru. By: Fizzlepops | | Time is winding down in my official 2 year volunteer service. With about 5 months left now I had recently decided that maybe I wasn’t ready to leave the country for good. Don’t get me wrong, I am DY... |
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 | When did it become July?
2009-07-12, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | [b]Trash Committee[/b]
Time is officially FLYING by! I feel like the year just started but it is already halfway gone. This is partially due to my being more busy than I was last year. The trash c... |
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 | Life in the jungle
2009-07-11, iquitos, Peru. By: SurAmerica | | For the past eight days team South America has been visiting four different modern villages on the edge of the Amazon River. For a couple of the villages it was the first time they had ever had missio... |
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 | Puno
2009-06-28, Puno, Peru. By: rossnkaren | | It appears we were rather lucky to get to Puno. The week we were on the beach and the day after our bus to Puno, country wide protests and strikes took place which brought traffic to a stand still.
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 | Mancora
2009-06-18, Mancora, Peru. By: rossnkaren | | We decided that after our fortnight of trekking our tired legs needed a rest. So after a brief stop in Chiclayo, we carried on further up the coast to Mancora to flop on the beachfor a bit. There wa... |
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 | I survived!
2009-07-01, Salkantay Trail to Machu Picchu, Peru. By: wcaruso | | Hello all! I just survived the most grueling 5 days of my entire life! Kimmy, Carly, Tori, Lisa, Ben, and I headed out of Cuzco at 430 in the morning on Friday. A bus picked us up from the hostel a... |
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 | Machu Picchu
2009-07-01, Cusco, Peru. By: kwarne | | Hi everyone!
We just got back late last night from our 5 day trek to Machu Picchu! It was absolutely amazing - Machu Picchu itself and the hike there! Every day we hiked through different landscape... |
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 | Chiclayo
2009-06-15, Chiclayo, Peru. By: rossnkaren | | We decided to get off the 'gringo trail' and head north in search of a beach to relax on after our treks. En route we stopped off in Chiclayo to see some pre Inca history. The Sipan people built pyr... |
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| Last night in Cusco
2009-06-25, Cusco, Peru. By: kwarne | | Tonight in our last night in Cusco - we start our trek to Machu Picchu tomorrow! I am so excited, this is what I have been looking forward to the whole trip so far. We booked the Salkantay Trail throu... |
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| Hola de Cuzco!
2009-06-25, Cuzco, Peru. By: wcaruso | | Hello everyone! I am now in Cuzco, a small Incan villiage south of Lima with cobblestone streets and way more locals than tourists. We arrived here early Monday morning via plane and I did not do too... |
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| Cusco
2009-06-23, Cusco, Peru. By: kwarne | | Hi everyone!
We arrived in Cusco early yesterday morning, at 7:15. We thought that our flight had been delayed from Lima to Cusco, but we checked it late the night before and it was back to normal.... |
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 | Machu Picchu
2009-06-09, Machu Picchu, Peru. By: rossnkaren | | Dreams CAN come true!
I am so so so so so so so so HAPPY!! I have finally reached my goal of walking the Inca trail to Machu Picchu.
We were a little nervous starting the trail to Machu Picchu. ... |
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| Lima continued
2009-06-21, Lima, Peru. By: wcaruso | | Hola!
Tonight is our last night in Lima - we are off to Cusco in the morning. Our flight was supposed to be at 5:40am, but it got delayed until 11:30am. At least the changed it now, rather than at ... |
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| Last night in Lima
2009-06-21, Lima, Peru. By: kwarne | | Hola!
Tonight is our last night in Lima - we are off to Cusco in the morning. Our flight was supposed to be at 5:40am, but it got delayed until 11:30am. At least the changed it now, rather than at ... |
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