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Thu, 24 Jul 2008 | By simonefrancis | Views [2010]
Ana, Meindert, Noemi, Susannah Jerome and I met up with Juany again at Corporacion de Educacion Popular, a school for the local poor children. We met Father Victor Hugo Tumba Ortiz, who has been volunteering his time to working at the school since it first ... Read more >
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 | By simonefrancis | Views [2054]
Ana, Meindert, Noemi, Susannah Jerome and I continued in to the taxi to Santo Toribo, which is a day care center for mentally and physically disabled children. The organisation is about 20 years old and there are about 170 kids attending the school.... Read more >
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 | By simonefrancis | Views [2039]
Ana, Meindert, Noemi, Susannah Jerome and I headed back onto the road in the packed taxi towards the women's refuge, which is the only one in the north of Peru. Laura Chalan de Vizconde, a local who has been volunteering here for about 9 years, warmly ... Read more >
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 | By simonefrancis | Views [3556] | Comments [1]
Squatting in the dirt... in the garbage, I spoke to a man the same young age as me who looked 40. I was trying to look like I didn't care about the hundreds of flies that swarmed around us or the rotting fruit between my feet. I didn't want the ... Read more >
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 | By simonefrancis | Views [1916]
We (Jerome and I), made it to Huanchaco. We were tired and without a shower for four of five days, but it was worse for Jerome as he was very ill during the whole 9 hour bus trip here. We entered into the Otra Cosa volunteer agency and sat down with ... Read more >
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 | By matsmith | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 | By kim-bloomfield | Views [2721] | Comments [1]
An incredible mountain biking trip to the Cordillera Blanca mountain range. WHAT A TRIP. I was invited to go on an exploration mountain bike trip with a friend of a friend who owns a mountain bike agency. Using horse trails and ancient Inca trails, ... Read more >
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 | By kim-bloomfield | Photo Gallery
Huaraz to nowhere and back
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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 | By matsmith | Views [775]
Mancora is a great sea side town, and apparently very busy in hgh season and with superb weather all year. It's fairly quiet at the moment but there are still a lot of Americans and other foreigners here.
I particularly like the ... Read more >
Tags: cormorants, pelicans, surfers
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 | By andyandsophie | Views [846]
After our least favourite bus journey so far (they say three hours, they dont say you turn a corner every thirty seconds), we arrived in another dusty little town - Chivay (pr. chiv-iiiiiiii!), apparently the capital of the region, and at the head of ... Read more >
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 | By simonefrancis | Views [943]
I went with Isabell t o see where the families of most of the children live... "Challua" (meaning invasion). Most of the families came to Huaraz from the mountains, and were wanting a better life plus education for their children. ... Read more >
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 | By caspar | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 21 Jul 2008 | By simonefrancis | Views [2274] | Comments [3]
When I first arrived at the Seeds of Hope volunteer house, I couldn’t help but notice the large amount of volunteers. I first had a conversation with Isabelle, who is originally from Belgium, and came here after taking a sabbatical from her job in ... Read more >
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 | By andyandsophie | Views [1308] | Comments [1]
After getting onto the best bus company in Peru, "Cruz del Sur" we settled into our large comfy seats for the 8 hour journey ahead. Whilst the film choice (What Happens in Vegas...in English!) beat the usual Spanish dubbing, complete with ... Read more >
Tags: shopping, white city
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 | By bagen | Views [1754] | Comments [1]
We knew it had to be done.... and we knew it would be mega-touristified so we donned our "No, gracias" smiles for the touts, suspended normal budgets for the rip-offs and braced ourselves for Cusco and Machu Pichu. We didn`t brace ourselves ... Read more >
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