Blogs from Huancavelica, Peru, South America - page 2

Tried to make Hummus tonight and while I can´t call it a success I have called it supper. I´m back in this very small town, Lircay, that´s very nitch and warm, despite it´s nights of freezing mountain air. Tomorrow, I´m going up to one of the local pueblos to help with a reforestation project. It´s all Peruvians that will be working so I think it will be nice bit of cultural exchange as usual. In fact, I think I´m the only foriegner for a good two hours in any direction. Little over a week ago I was in Lircay but instead of reforestation I was helping with potato farms. Some of the time was spent actually digging canals in the fields. But one of those days we did something extra special and went on a "potato ... read more

Huancavelica and Huancayo We took a night bus from Pisco to Huancavelica and it was probably best that we couldn’t really see where we were going. At times the bus crawled around rock ledges and steep drop offs, mostly on dirt roads, arriving in Huancavelica at 5 am. We spent two days in Huancavelica, a small mountainous town where we were the only foreigners at that time and it made for great conversations while eating our peanut butter in the park, listening to music at a nearby community festival, waiting for buses or being given an extensive tour of the reconstruction efforts of an old church. While touring the church I tried to explain that I had been a building inspection and due to our inability translate correctly I suddenly became an architect and they showed ... read more