http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Peru , Junin , Huancayo en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:43:09 +0000 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:43:09 +0000 C est parti pour 3h30 de route pour rejoindre Huncayoville au sud de Tarma a 2900 m d altitude380 000 habitants soit 6 fois plus qu a Tarma on est pas rassure car c est de la route de montagne et il pleut beaucoup... avantage des bus peruviens contrairement a Eurolines c est que les voyageurs demandent a s arreter ou ils veulent environ toutes les 3min...Arrivee a Huncayo on se dirige v http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-459156.html Hola mis amigosThis weekend five of my friends and I took our first big trip outside of Lima to Huancayo. It's a city in the Junin valley in the Andes. We left Thursday night and took a night bus about 6 hours from Lima to Huancayo. The night bus was...interesting. I got excited when I heard that they would play a movie then I found out it was Free Willy 2. Not so exciting. I watched it anywa http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-433403.html HelloOn Saturday morning we went to Torre Torre which alike everything else here you have to climb up some very steep hills to reach As we walked through a small village on our way many children ran up to us eager to practice their english shouting hello i love you goodbye Torre Torre was great to see and made some brilliant photos but im pretty certain that it is the most terrifying t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-429221.html HelloI have been relatively busy this week helping at the orphanage 9.301 then at the school 35. Whilst at the orphanage I have been trying to entertain the babies change them and help to feed the toddlers. This sounds simple enough but to be honest i have found it exhausting Lunch is usually reversed so that the giggling children try to feed me their food and the spoons often become phones http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-427964.html HelloI landed in Lima late last night and I039m still unsure about who i stayed the night with I was picked up from the airport and taken to a very nice flat near by shown to my room woken up at 6am and told i was going on the bus Lima was very interesting especially the extreme contrast in wealth. There were huge colourful billboards in every direction standing directly above homeless http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-425401.html I started this journal entry while I was still in Peru but unfortunately have not been able to publish until now. Please Excuse the delay and enjoythe stories from one of my favorite side trips I took while in Peru.I must first apologize because I am a little behind on journal entries. We went to the jungle Friday June 26 Saturday June 27. We traveled from Huancayo three hours to La Merced a ju http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-421155.html I just wanted to take so time to write about the amazing animals in Peru. I will write in my next blog about the animals I saw while in the jungle totally fascinating but I want to write now about the animals of my everyday life in Huancayo Peru. I mentioned in my last blog that much of the Junin Region or state has an agriculture economy. Huancayo as a district has many smaller towns that are http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-413161.html This week has been full of exciting opportunities. I was in OBGYN forrounds which was really my first exposure to the world of OBGYNand I have found it very interesting here. I really do not have anythingother than my medical anthropology articles to compare it to. I would saythat at least 50 of the women in the postpartum area have had csections.Probably at least 35 are under the age of twe http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-413150.html This weekend was beautiful We spent Saturday touring all of the smaller towns within and around Huancayo. Our first stop was the textile village of Hualhuas. Here a textile worker showed us how the llama and alpaca and sheep wool was all made into the yarn that they make everything from. He also showed us several plants that grow in the valley that he uses for dyes. The products were beautiful. T http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-411581.html First of all here is a link to Derek's photo album httppicasaweb.google.comdaugz14PeruPhotosauthkeyGv1sRgCOKK7MWz9I4zwEfeatemailHe is the only one to have successfully loaded photos. They include pictures from our two hours in Lima the bus ride to Huancayo the outside of the hospital the fluoride treatment day playing with the kids at Rosario orphanage the concert and the hike p http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-409906.html Saturday marked the end of my first week in Peru and what better way to end that first week than by attending a big concert in Huancayo Saturday night and then hiking Huaytapallana. Saturday morning we woke up and went to Es Salude the insurance hospital to hand out fliers about donating blood. It was a very beautiful morning and people were actually very receptive to our message. A couple of p http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-408570.html Wow The last few days have been crazy and so much fun When I left off I was about to attend an anatomy lab at the public university here in Huancayo. Each of us split up to join a group of medical students. Currently they are studying the muscles arteries and veins and nerves of the face eye and neck. My group spent time teaching me each nerve muscle artery and vein in these areas in Spanish http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-407860.html This morning was awesome. In the hospital I was in the surgery unit for rounds and then watched some procedures such as getting a history cleaning an open surgical wound restitching up a surgical wound and the cleaning of lots of intestinal incisions due to blocked bowels and in one case a stabbing wound. The knife had punctured his intestines and so he had to go into surgery on Saturday to cl http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-406982.html Hola So I know I already wrote today but I thought I should tell you all about the amazing bus ride that I took from Lima to Huancayo yesterday. It was seven hours long which I know probably brings up horrible memories of cramped roadtrips or school trips for many of you but the bus was very comfortable. We were on the second level and at the very front so I could see everything. Leaving Lima w http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-406714.html Hello everyone. I am here in Huancayo Peru I made it my suitcase still has not but it should come tomorrow. This morning I sat in on some consultations with a rheumatologist how amazing. The people of Huancayo are very kind and sharing. This afternoon we will be planning english lessons for the coming up month that we will tech to students agaes 811. Lots of love and write soonCaitlin http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-406575.html I have arrived here in Lima after a very long delay in Miami. I unfortunately lost my luggage along the way but so did one other member of our group so we should be okay. I am very excited to be here. My group consists of three of us Anna a MPH student at Tulane and Derrick a senior at Notre Dame. Love you all and will write soon. I am happy to be here and excited for it all to begin. I just hop http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-406047.html I start my trip to Peru in seven hours. I will land in Lima Peru at 945pm. From what I can tell Lima and Madison are actually in the same time zone. From Lima I will take a six hour bus ride through the mountains to get to Huancayo Peru. Huancayo is the city where I will be based for the next month. I am so excited to start this adventure. I will blog as soon as I can to give all of you an upda http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-405731.html Huancayo was great we arrived to Chupaca a town 10 minutes from the city where my grand parents have a big beautiful house on top of a hill . the place was amazing a different atmosphere from the city more peaceful.As soon as we arrived there we also started eating a lot maybe because of the cold and because there was all the time a big meal in the kitchen.We went to different places around the t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-382987.html Continuing from our Andes adventure... http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-378363.html We set off from Lima on Thursday for our 6 hour drive into the mountains. Our destination Chupaca. The mountains are really beautiful and constantly change colour and texture with the different vegetation and rocks and a river follows you for the majority of the trip. While the scenery was great along the way it wasnt the most relaxing of journeys The road twists and turns along the mountains http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Junin/Huancayo/blog-378351.html