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Arequipa and Colca Canyon
08/30/07
It has been one long week. I am currently stuck in Lima International airport for another 11.5 hours (already been here for about 6) and have plenty of time to update the blog.
So I took an overnight bus to Arequipa last Saturday night at about 800pm. The trip took almost 10hours getting -
Nick has sued the minister of transportation!
08/22/07
Andean Railways Corps has officially sued the minister of transportation for entry into the passenger train market!
Nick and Maria's pictures and statements are all over the newspapers here--the whole train project is now in the public eye. Apparently public sentiment is in favor of -
Hiking to the glaciers (well we almost made it!)
08/21/07
Aaron and I have been talking about this hike since the first week we were here in Urubamba. Now that it has finally come down to Aaron's last weekend, we were definitely going to do it.
Nick had also been telling us to do this hike for a long time.
Our plan was to meet Ke -
Volunteering in Cusco
08/21/07
Last Friday, Aaron and I met some friends for a couple of beers and check out more of the night life in Cusco.
The night was great. We went to the same Irish pub that we've been to many times (Paddy's) and to some of the same bars as last time (and a couple of new ones). It was -
Pictures are now up
08/17/07
Finally all of the pictures from the past week are up! Enjoy.
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Calca
08/16/07
Yesterday we traveled to Calca to see their celebration for the Virgin Mary. I think that every small town in the sacred valley (at least) as one day of the year on which they celebrate the patron saint of their main church. So far all I have seen are the celebrations in Yucay, Pisac, and recently -
Lake Titicaca
08/16/07
Every trip that I have taken here in Peru has been a blast. This one is no different! I have a lot to write about this trip so I am going to divide this post up according to the islands and towns we visited.
---Bus ride and Puno---
Our trip started after catching the 8am bus to -
Sexywoman
08/16/07
Aaron and I played this entire weekend trip by ear as we have most of our trips here in Peru. We knew that we wanted to see the Sacsahuman ruins (pronounced 'Sexywoman') with our tourist ticket and we also knew that we wanted to go to Puno and see the lake. We had already bought the ticket -
Pisac
08/16/07
As time is now running out for this trip, Aaron and I have begun to take several day trips to some of the great ruins in the valley. We wanted to make good use of our tourist tickets and traveled to Pisac last Wednesday.
The ruins in Pisac were great! These ruins rival Machu Picchu!
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Earthquake and updates
08/16/07
A massive earthquake hit northern Peru last night registering somehwere between a 7.5 and an 8 on the Richter scale. Here in Urubamba we didn't feel anything. According to CNN, Lima had power outages and 85 casulties 15 of which were fatal.
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Pictures are now up!
08/07/07
Pictures from last weekend are now up!
I have changed the layout of the site a little. All the picture links will now appear in the 'Pictures' category on the right panel. Pretty complicated, right? -
Next weekend: Lake Titicaca
08/06/07
Today after tutoring Tany (the correct spelling--I was yelled at!) we took the bus into Cusco to check the prices of plane tickets to Lima (for my departing flight) and to get bus tickets to Puno (the main city on lake Titicaca).
It was a long day of walking all over Cusco. The brand new -
Moray and tekking through the high plains
08/06/07
Our plans changed slightly for this past sunday the morning of. Nick was very instant that Aaron and I not miss the festivities that were taking place at Moray.
A celebration from what I could tell was called Pachamama took place in the old Incan ruins at Moray. Nick said that Pachamama w -
Ollantaytambo
08/06/07
This pas weekend was very busy.
We planned on going to Ollantaytambo on Saturday and then to the Pisac ruins and market on Sunday.
Saturday we got up reasonably early and caught a combi to Ollantaytambo at about 1030am. The ride was uneventful and very crowded. Of course every -
I may have found my true calling......
08/06/07
It has been a while since my last post. I have been quite busy.
Wednesday last week I had a great oportunity to make a difference in a small rural school here in the Sacred Valley. Will has been volunteering at a small school in the town of Urquillos (about 10min east of Urubamba off of t
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