Blogs from Pucallpa, Ucayali, Peru, South America - page 5

C'est juste pour souhaiter un joyeux Noel a tout le monde, et mettre quelques photos suplementaires. On part le 26 pour Lima et apres on verra bien... bises... read more

Last week we went to Saposoa, a much more friendly community. We exposed our usual Museo de la Salud, (literally means hygiene museum). This time Eliseo, a new comer in the project, added a part on agriculture, where he explained what fruits to grow and how. Our Spanish is improving rapidly and we’ve also learned a few words in Shipibo. The main event of the trip was another nocturnal tropical storm. This time we were better prepared since we had tents. I had borrowed one from ADRA but Pierre had insisted on taking his own. Unfortunately it could not be mounted indoors so when the storm broke out at 1.00 AM, I had a thought for him from my warm under-shelter bed, although I spent most of the night tackling a new form of "invisible-mosquitoes". At ... read more

Apparament certaines personnes se demandent ce que je fais a part tuer des poulets. Je vais essayer d'etre un peu plus clair et precis. On est finalement en train de faire du volontariat dans une association nommee ADRA basee a Pucallpa et qui a pour but de lutter contre la pauvrete des communautes indigenes de la region de l'Ucayali. Ils construisent des puits, organisent leur agriculture et surtout les sensibilisent aux problemes lies a l'hygiene. Jusqu'a present, au jour le jour ce qu'on faisait concretement : on peut appeler ca du tourisme ecologique, sauf qu'en plus on donnaient des cours 2 heures par jour aux indigenes. Le reste du temps on essayait de s'adapter aux conditions, on allait pecher, on jouait au foot avec eux, en gros on essayait de s'integrer un minimum. Mais c'est illusoire, ... read more

After a very very long trip we've arrived in Pucallpa, one of the two main towns in the Peruvian part of the Amazonian rain forest. The trip was quite an experience. It started off with the sand desert around Lima. We then crossed the Cordillera Blanca, where we travelled up to almost 6000m (18000ft!!) and suffered from altitude sickness... Finally we headed deep into the jungle, where the "road" seemed to get constantly worse. Pucallpa is a lot different from Lima. Its very hot and dusty, but at the same time surrounded by loads of interesting flora. Poverty is also much more abundant here. Tomorrow (on Saturday), we'll take a boat up the river and meet with the community we'll be working with for the next 2 months. Although internet connections are surprisingly easy to find ... read more