 | Cleaning Teeth is an Art Form
2008-06-30, Sorochuco, Peru. By: djtwist0 | | Got travel plans on my mind these days, especially when sitting in my room listening to Argentinean tango and craving that exotic Latino spice. But I know that the US of A will come a-reckonin’ fast... |
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| Boney Yogis
2008-06-22, Huangashanga, Peru. By: djtwist0 | | I often say that I would have lived to be an older man if I didn’t do this tour. If I had stayed home, I would have hypothetically lived to the ripe old age of 80. After 2 years in the Peace Corps, I... |
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 | Journeys of Epic Proportions
2008-05-30, Huasmin, Peru. By: djtwist0 | | As Peace Corps Volunteers, we’re put in our sites, sans money and told to design programs which will ultimately be sustainable for future peoples and lead to social development. In theory, if things ... |
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 | Iquitos and Amazon
2008-05-22, Iquitos, Peru. By: saradekker | | Iquitos, Peru
Recap: Three weeks in Peru. Spent approximately two weeks in Iquitos and one week in the jungle/villages.
Iquitos: Some people live in homes made of concrete walls and thatch... |
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 | It´s all good
2008-06-10, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | I realize that some of my blogs may have a bit of a dramatic flare to them. Another volunteer warned me that this can result in feelings of panic in loved ones at home who read the blogs and come to ... |
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 | Change of plan !!
2008-06-10, Arequipa, Peru. By: cbr600f | | Well, a change of plan .....I'm heading back up to Lima on Monday, I've got the chance to go back out with the dolphins for a week on an expedition to areas that haven't been researched before, why no... |
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 | Fourth day with Rainforest Expeditions
2008-05-01, Amazon Jungle, Peru. By: Haroula | | I woke this morning at 3:00 am to the noise similar sounding to hitting two coconut halves together. It was very loud and there were many of them making that noise! I left the room and followed the no... |
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 | Third day with Rainforest Expeditions
2008-04-30, Amazon Jungle, Peru. By: Haroula | | We left the lodge at 5:00 am and took a 5 min boat ride, upstream to the Macaw Clay Licks. They are the largest Macaw Clay Licks in the world. We had to be there first thing before they arrived, so we... |
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 | Second day with Rainforest Expeditions
2008-04-29, Amazon Jungle, Peru. By: Haroula | | We left the lodge at 5:00 am and walked about 800 meters to a look out tower that overlooked the rain forest canopy. We arrived there in time to see the sunrise and had the oportunity to see many bird... |
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 | First day with Rainforest Expeditions
2008-04-28, Amazon Jungle, Peru. By: Haroula | | We arrived at the main office in Puerto Maldonado. Just .5 km from the Airport. Each group of people were assigned a personal guide that would remain with the group throughout the trip. Our guide's na... |
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 | First day in Peru
2008-04-27, Puerto Maldonado, Peru. By: Haroula | | Puerto Maldonado was the first place Billie and I, stayed in Peru. It was quite the culture shock. As soon as we stepped out of the plane, the humidity hit us hard. A far cry from Alberta. It was so g... |
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 | Wow, what a month continued....
2008-06-06, Cusco, Peru. By: cbr600f | | Well, as promised more tales from my month of dolphin volunteering …..
Aldo and Stefan told us that we would each have to have a go at starting the zodiac engine, one of those pull chord things that ... |
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| Projects? What projects?
2008-06-03, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | I am currently typing this while two different people are playing the same song but one is about 5 seconds faster than the other. So, if it sounds like I am having trouble concentrating that’s probab... |
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 | Wow, what a month !
2008-06-02, Cusco, Peru. By: cbr600f | | Hello all, well here I am in Cusco, just round the corner from Machu Picchu.
Firstly I am having major problems downloading my photos today so there won't be many pictures with this story I'm afraid.... |
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 | It´s Amazing Where the Day Can Take You
2008-05-24, Sucre, Peru. By: djtwist0 | | My laptop seems to have acquired some odd computer virus; a situation made odder by the fact that I have no internet connection. Randomly throughout my typing, the document will auto-format and then ... |
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 | Random happenings of daily life in Peru
2008-05-20, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | A few weeks ago 2 women from the nearby town came to visit me at my house. I had met one of the women because she has a field in my site and was there planting in it one day when I was out doing hous... |
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 | Sorochuco induces a trance-like state
2008-05-17, Sorochuco, Peru. By: djtwist0 | | In my “spare time,” which is a euphemism for “the majority of my waking hours,” I have begun the arduous task of editing and re-posting some earlier journal entries. Recent entries are not exactly lit... |
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 | A week with dolphins
2008-05-13, Pucusana, Peru. By: cbr600f | | Still on the dodgy keyboard ! So bear with me ....
Well, we-re still here in Lima and doing our dolphin research out of the port of Pucusana. We were supposed to be going down to Paracas this week an... |
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 | Bitter and Relieved
2008-05-11, Sorochuco, Peru. By: djtwist0 | | In the 20 months which I have kept up with this blog, I’ve gotten a ton of emails from unknown people who have read my ramblings and sent back very positive, thoughtful messages. For these, I am very... |
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| Another new country ....
2008-05-04, Lima, Peru. By: cbr600f | | Before I start I am having enormous trouble finding the right punctuation on this keyboard so you may find some strange symbols being used !
So, here I am in Peru, arrived today but before that I n... |
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 | Hanging Out
2008-05-02, Sorochuco, Peru. By: djtwist0 | | Tradition reared its ugly head after the Alanya trip. I awoke at 4AM the next day with a bulge in my stomach and knew that I was on deck to either give birth or vomit. But miracles of natures aside, ... |
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| Quick blog
2008-04-24, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | Just a quick update on the life of Susan. I now have 2 host siblings that will be going to University as my host brother has just taken the general exam and gotten in (for biology also). He was the ... |
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 | Lots of Different Stuff
2008-04-21, La libertad de Pallan, Peru. By: djtwist0 | | ….And April is quickly slipping away. Today was one of those days when I woke up and realized that there is lots stuff to get done, but not tons of time to do it.
While vaccinating children agai... |
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 | Que será
2008-04-07, Pacora, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | (note…sorry the pictures I uploaded are not in order)
Vacation was fun but its back to work…and by work I mean working on the stack of books I keep taking from the ´take a book, leave a book´ shelf... |
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 | 68.7% Done
2008-04-05, Sorochuco, Peru. By: djtwist0 | | So Mom and Dad left and I was again alone, wandering desperate, dissolute and utterly alone in this cataclysmic experience known as the Peace Corps. Coincidentally, their leaving fell in the middle o... |
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 | A Family Affair
2008-03-21, Mancora, Peru. By: djtwist0 | | I was recently fortunate to receive a slice of home familiarity with the arrival of my parents. Our trip was great, but as with Murphy’s Law, the chip in my camera acted up and all the photos that I t... |
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 | Crazy
2008-03-31, Lima, Peru. By: gensworld | | I have been in Peru for three weeks and I am having a blast. Miraflores is a delightful place very romantic and safe, great place to acclamate. I spent a week there, hangin at the beach, chatting wit... |
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 | Hello from Ayacucho, Peru
2008-12-06, Ayacucho, Peru. By: lmae613 | | Hello everyone. I miss you guys lots! I was so excited to see a message on my guestbook from Janice and Aunt Isabelle. Theres so much to tell and so little time. My time is ending here and so you´ll g... |
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 | Semana Santa
2008-03-22, Cajamarca, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | There are very few environmental volunteers from my group with beautiful mountain sites...i am not one of them. Like most of the other volunteers, my site is in the dry forest in the coastal zone. M... |
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 | Indiana Jones style
2007-09-20, Lima, Peru. By: jazz | | Start off along the coast of Peru, up into the Andes and into the heart of the Colombian jungle. |
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| Things that will kill you
2008-03-15, Chiclayo, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | There are a lot of superstitions about food in Peru which I have broken. Since many end in death I thought I would write abut them before I kick the bucket. It started in Lima when I ate my dinner c... |
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| I´m not in Kansas anymore
2008-12-06, Ayacucho, Peru. By: lmae613 | | I got to Ayacucho this morning around 8.30a. It was a little over an hour after it was scheduled to arrive, but it didn´t bother me one bit because I was sleeping the whole 10 hr ride.
I´m def not... |
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| Miraflores
2008-11-06, Lima, Peru. By: lmae613 | | I had pre-arranged my flight before knowing all details about my trip. I figured it wouldn´t have been a problem to arrive at the volunteer site a few days early (which it wouldnt have been), but my p... |
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 | Reconnect
2008-03-07, Huanchaco, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | I just returned from our group reconnect in Huanchaco, outside of Trujillo. Every group has a reconnect after 3 monthes where everyone gets together to talk about what is going on at their sites, pro... |
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| Refridgeration
2008-02-26, Chiclayo, Peru. By: fizzlepops | | This story is a little late in being posted but it is a big change in my life in the campo so I had to write about it. I bought a fridge! Instead of paying my family for living with them every month... |
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