Okay, we´re off. We spent a couple of days in Lima, enjoyed the cliffside walkway, and the dancing fountains at night, and recovered from the travel and then off to our first project. If we wanted culture shock, we got it! There are so many similarities to Ecuador that at first it seemed easy. We know how to negotiate the crazy traffic, about all the busses, minivans, motorcycle taxis, overstuffed vehicles. The big difference was driving into the absolute moonscape of the area surrounding Lima, complete rock, nothing growing. And people live here, complete towns in the dust, and on the hillside wooden crates that are supposed to be houses. and all of a sudden,trees, plants, birds, because there´s a river. Santa Martha itself is a coupleof huge fours story cement buildings, with more room than
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