http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/La-Merced/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Peru , Junin , La Merced en-us Tue, 08 Dec 09 04:39:43 +0000 Tue, 08 Dec 09 04:39:43 +0000 Suite une randonne sous la neige notre prochaine destination fut la jungle.. Tout un autre paysage et surtout tout un autre climat Quelle chaleurGrce ma professeur d'espagnol j'ai eu l'occasion d'accompagner les jeunes de son glise pour un weekend la serva. Tout tait bien organis nous avons pu loger dans le campement d'un pasteur. Nous avions disposition tout ce qu'il fallait http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/La-Merced/blog-332098.html I didn't pay for a crazy excursion into the jungle. Instead I met a kid named Michael. Michael is a guy who lives to travel making jewelry and selling it pretty much all around Peru and South America. We met in Cusco and I practiced my Spanish with him a few times. The first thing I knew about him was that he was from the jungle. When he left Cusco he told me to email him and that we could http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/La-Merced/blog-307333.html Ik ben maar 2 dagen in de Selva geweest maar de JUNGLE is toch wel een apparte post waard. Ik was spontaan in La Merced beland. Net in de centrale Selva. La Merced en de omringende plaatsjes zijn niet bijzonder wild aangezien ze gecultiveerd zijn maar de echte jungle ligt daar binnen handbereik. Het is kennelijk ook een populaire vakantiebestemming voor Limeas waardoor er genoeg keuze is aan t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/La-Merced/blog-300166.html So we are officially done the volunteering portion of the trip. Even though the kids were energetic to say the least we miss them already. Even Victor Hugo and his hair pulling tendancies. Others we shall miss are spider man who will go nowhere without his spider man costume Carlos and his young love Melanie Eduardo and his young love Carlos Mayerly and her innability to eat on her own an http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/La-Merced/blog-284863.html GAH BIG NEWS EVERYONE today i found GOOD COFFEE this is kristina btw in case any of you were wondering. so as i was saying as i sipped my cafe con leche and ate my crema voltada and gazed out over the jungle mountains i began to think about the food here in peru. i usually think a lot about food so i decided to create a blog entry just about that. feel free to skip this one if you dont http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/La-Merced/blog-283474.html We havent actually met anyone named george here but we are looking out for trees.andrea laughs hystericaly for a few minutesWe arrived in the jungle on tuesday and to our homestay which is very open concept in as much as none of the hallways have roofs. What do they do in the rainy season We are living with a local Pastor and family so dont expect any shenannigans like our last trip to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/La-Merced/blog-281997.html Before you ask no we did not see any lions sleeping or otherwise but we did pet a baby wildcat. adorable. we have just returned from a weekend in the jungle about 3 hours away from huancayo. we left on thursday and made a stop in the reputed largest caves in south america complete with preincan and postincan graffiti and a stalagmite in the shape of the virgin mary. apparently the virgin http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/La-Merced/blog-275202.html