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By Doc Nic
August 3rd 2008

¿Hablan español?

 South America » Peru » Callao
Pisco Sour
Pisco Sour
The national drink! It´s everywhere.... and ¡muy fuerte!
Off again on another wild adventure, and attempting to blog it -- success yet to be determined. For anyone who doesn´t know why I´m here/what I´m doing, I´m in Peru for 2 weeks with the Navy after finishing a tropical medicine course. We have a research station in Peru and will be working with the Navy stationed here, as well as Peruvian doctors. ´Roughly, it´s about 1wk in Lima doing clinic stuff and visiting hospitals. It´s another week in the Amazon floating on a river boat going from village to village setting up little clinics each day. The idea is that [View Full Entry]

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So we got back to the ship from Machu Picchu on Wednesday morning, the ship being in port until Thursday evening and so to my relief, realized we had time to do a trip and some shopping, although not that day as we were too tired so took it easy. Woke up Thursday Morning as fresh as a daisy, well almost, to the view outside the cabin window of the port of Callao, Lima in Peru. Callao has a population of 700,000 and is the port for the city of Lima, Peru's capital, but the two cities have merged and the [View Full Entry]

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Tea with Peruvian

By Kreiser
January 18th 2008

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I will add entries with photos here due the the fact some photos are too graphically intense for Quia. This may not fill up very quick. [View Full Entry]

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