Destination: Peru

trip to k´arwi

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 | By ldeutch | Views [1110]

Second trip out to meet with a community, and coordiante-introduce our project. This time with Laura and Lourdes because the guys had to meet with another community. We took the rover, as laura said, mas duro para manejar, pero tambien mas duro para ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

trip to Chillihua (outside of cusco, on the border of Puno)

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 | By ldeutch | Views [2303]

So this entry is preceding the one I started but didn´t make ¨live¨ which talks more about what exactly I´m doing in Cusco, and who is this group called Ayllu Yupaychay (wisdom of the young in quechua) that I am working with (and subsequently living ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

Gallery: Ayllu Yupaychay, Cusco

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 | By ldeutch | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Cusco

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 | By ldeutch | Photo Gallery

Arrived in Cusco

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 | By ldeutch | Views [886]

After my 13 hour bus ride, I arrived safe and happily in Cusco. For the next month I will based out of the office of this group, Ayllu Yupaychay. For the last 8 or so years they have been working with kids in very remote, rural indigenous communities, ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

tales from the bus... La Paz to Cusco

Sun, 5 Mar 2006 | By ldeutch | Views [4352] | Comments [1]

8am board the Litoral bus to Cusco. tons of leg room, double decker. I´m on the top. Unlike the city, the bus station in la paz is highly organized and calm. 8:30 bought a newspaper, La Razon... includes articles about Bush´s attempt to play cricket, ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Gallery: Around Lago Titikaka

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 | By ldeutch | Photo Gallery

Lago Titicaca

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 | By ldeutch | Views [1165]

  This was a schizo travel day. We sucked up the money, best spent $125 and took a flight from Lima to Juliaca (near lake titicaca), via Arequita. 2 hours versus 24 on bus. It was worth it. So we leave the coast at 6am and arrive in Juliaca, greeted ... Read more >

Tags: Beaches & sunshine

Gallery: northern peru & Lima

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 | By ldeutch | Photo Gallery

LIMA

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 | By ldeutch | Views [850] | Comments [2]

coming soon.. .lima gets a bad rep, but I wish I could stay longer. the smog was much worse in quito (barley noticed it here). We stayed in Miraflores, a nice neighborhood, with oodles of mouth watering food choices... 25 mins from the center of down.... Read more >

Tags: Beaches & sunshine

Peru... we made it

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 | By ldeutch | Views [958]

--sorry to short change Peru on the write up, but I cant type anymore right now--- Crossed the border, and we have been cruising down the coast of Peru for a few days now. northern peru: dry desert, shantytowns, hot, humid, depressing, poor... very ... Read more >

Tags: planes trains & automobiles

Gallery: Peru

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 | By lou | Photo Gallery

Sacsayhuaman to Manchu Pichu...

Fri, 25 Nov 2005 | By tjwhale | Views [2831]

Hello all...sorry it´s been a while since we were last on...but the trail and travel have prevented much journal writing.  This note might be kind of out of order as I´m trying to recap MANY adventures and thoughts. Well...what adventures we´re having!!!  ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

San Jose, Lima Peru and Cusco...

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 | By tjwhale | Views [1493] | Comments [7]

Hello again all... The only details Julia missed in the last entry...first, the crazy bums name was Alvaro de Jesus...and it was hard to tell what was a fbrication and what was the truth.  I believed it all though...and enjoyed the touch of local life.... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Lima Peru

Wed, 4 May 2005 | By ladysilverwolf | Views [506]

Lima Peru was an interesting city.   My first feeling of the city is that it was LA with sand, after spending an afternoon exploring the city I slowly changed my feeling of the city.   The Plaza se Armas has the Government Palace. All over there ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing