http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Peru , Ica , Pisco en-us Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:32:00 BST Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:32:00 BST Woke up with a bit of a tequila hangover but just thankful i was sleeping in a nice bed with clean sheets. I missed breakfast late again but my room mate made it. Lois is having a change of career and is going into the army as a lawyer and is very good at timekeeping it would seem. How different we are. We all had the morning to ourselves in Lima and would all meet up in the hotel at 2pm to get http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-317408.html Breakfast at the resort left a little to be desired. The coco puff like stuff mixed with the strawberry rice krispie like things made for a decent cereal bowl but all the milk in this country tastes skunked. They say its because they feed the cows onions or something crazy like that so it supposedly gives the milk a fishy taste. I think it all just went sour... Nasty. And its unheard of t http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-312976.html Our next great place of destination was a place called Ica although u dont stay there thats just the city its completely surrounded by desert and in the middle is a little oasis called Huacachina. It is absolutly in the middle of the desert and is purely for tourist to go sand boarding and relax..... or not This place is beautiful but a shame its just touristico. So we did some sand boarding http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-312532.html 105710831077107610911102109710801084 1076108510771084 10841099 10861090108710881072107410801083108010891100 1074 1087109110901080 1080 1087108810861074107710831080 4 1095107210891072 1074 10721074109010861073109110891077 10871086 1082 http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-303318.html note This entry is all about runon sentences and captions for the photos.It was Tuesday the 15th at about 815 am at our regular morning organizational meeting. Forty plus volunteers are sitting in an outdoor area of a place known as Base Camp where at least half of the volunteers have slept the previous night in two dorm rooms. The de facto leader Jimmy an under30 thinframed scraggly http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-302937.html The Smaller PictureFriday the Fourth woke up at 730 am to sit through an 800 am meeting literally picked up a personrsquos house with 8 others and moved it a meter East and a meter South tossed about 2 tons worth of heavy stones from one pile into another pile 3 meters away hacked at stone with a pick axe and steel pole for several hours dug a 12 meter long ditch with a depth progressing http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-299363.html Pisco a ete detruite a pres de 85 lannee cerniere par le tremblement de terre 8 sur lechelle de Richter. Il ne reste presque rien. Cest tres triste.Pres de Pisco on est alles voir le candelabra ldquomysterieuxrdquo aucune idee qui la fait et pourquoi et les iles Ballestas pour voir les millions doiseaux les pingouins et les lions de mer.Pisco was destroyed last year nearly at 85 http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-290112.html After heading out from Lima I headed south along the coast of Peru to Pisco my next stopping off point. The town of Pisco is still recovering from the massive earthquake that it had about 2 years ago. Walking along the streets there are shops open among the rubble of the earthquake. Moving around the different streets are difficult as you have to make sure that you dont fall into the massive sin http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-289455.html June 26th...And not a Ron washed in the house... Dear friendsHas it been so long. Its good to see you again. Maybe someone can fill me in on what has happened over the last couple of weeks. I think I lost the run of myself. I have that feeling that you get after you buy a couple of bottles of buckfast happy as Lawrence on a friday after work and come home shoeless Sunday evening covered in chick http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-289377.html Kate After such a wonderful time in Lima with Treeve and his family we decided to head down the coast to Pisco. When we arrived it was quite sad to see how much damage the recent earthquake had caused with so many building falling down and big gaps in the street where building once existed i didnt even know there was an earthquakedoh. We stayed in another really nice hostel and booked up http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-281237.html Project Pisco has officially come to a close. After spending 125 out of 126 days here in Pisco I leave this dusty town behind tomorrow night Monday January 14 2008 and head to Arequipa in the southern part of the country. Some of you are aware that I was an exchange student in Arequipa many many years ago. I have been in this country for just over four months and haven't yet seen the host fami http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-281064.html have you heard the latest...we are shutting down the project early. the 12th of jan will be the last day due to all the crime and general uncertainty here in pisco. robberies and theft continue to be a problem and a threat to all the volunteers escalated of course with the holidays but the last thing we want is for someone to get seriously injured. bummer it has to end this way. david campbell t http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-281063.html WOW What an incredible alumni letternewsletter.....I wanted to pass this on and share this with all of you who have followed my volunteering efforts with this incredible organization since its inception when we were known as Hands On Thailand I still have one of the original shirts. Many of you on my email blast list are past or current volunteers so just in case you did not receive th http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-281062.html this is a short one this time....for those of you who are involved in hands on disaster response HODR and have been following the news lately you are aware a devastating cyclone Sidr hit the impoverished country nearly one month ago ruining what little infrastructure the country already had taking the lives of thousands of livestock and affecting millions of people in terms of loosing their http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-281060.html Why I have I not written until now....Ummmmm...been busy volunteering Cleaning up a big city that has nearly all fallen down due to a massive earthquake last August. Yeah well someone's gotta do it rightEven though we all try and keep as healthy as we can while traveling sometimes we just can't help getting run down. Traveling is hard on our bods work is hard on our systems living in http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-281059.html HOLA MIS AMIGOS As I write this I have now been here in Pisco Peru three days shy of a month and as I send this I am ONE day shy. Time has seriously flown and even though I feel as if we have barely scratched the surface with the work that needs to get done in this town when I look back at the first few days and compare it with what I know and what I see now there is no doubt in my mind s http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-281053.html Last Sunday night I made it down here to Pisco Peru the hardest hit area after a major 8.0 earthquake struck the region August 15th. This is a blast to let you all know I am safe wellfed amazingly so thanks to the generostity of the locals here in the community have easy internet access not even 3 blocks from the Hands On House but cold oh so cold. It is going to take some time for my http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-281052.html The YOUTUBE video is up and I encourage everyone to watch it. It is only 4 minutes out of your entire day and if you compare that with reading one of my email blast novels well that is like an eyeblink of time No excuses You can find the video right on the front page of the HANDS ON DISASTER RESPONSE website at www.hodr.org Would love your feedback http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-281051.html OK as you are all I'm surely aware a devastating earthquake hitsouthwestern Peru a few weeks ago and without going into the thedisaster details here I wanted you all to know I have made thedecision to go and volunteer with the most amazing and my personalfavorite diasterrelief organization in the world Hands On DisasterResponse.The only thing keeping me from jumping on the bandwagon quicker http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-281048.html Just a quick one this time. Currently in Pisco its a bit of a strange town. They had an earthquake last August and the town is in a pretty bad state of repair. There are so many buildings still not rebuilt and so many poor people around. Quite an eye opener. After studying so many earthquakes at uni to actually see the impacts of one is pretty interesting. The town looks very dusty and br http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-275248.html Saturday 8thHave had the most ENORMOUS amount of sleep so have a relaxed breakfast then head round to the internet cafe with Shilpa and we both put in an hour. I may regret that I havent gone to the laundromat but hey internet more fun for now We get back to the hotel pack ready for the bus. Run into Michael ask him how his birthday went last night get a dont asklook so think it must http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-254028.html Tuesday morning we headed off to Pisco on an extremely hot bus with bad shocks and an undercarriage that flapped open threatening to dump our bags on the road. We arrived at the Burner's Without Borders volunteer house just in time for lunch and then headed off to do some demolition. We were working on digging the foundation for a house. The man who owned the land had been in the process http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-247746.html Lifes a bitch. Then you die. Black hell. Apologies im sorry. Dont know what came over me there. Might have been that fish I had for lunch. Life is awesomeo Now where were we As I rightly recall one month ago was it Ive been quite preoccupied as of late we were having a nice chat I was in Piura you were in a lovely flowery dress and we were discussing plans for the future. Our future. http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-247582.html Hi FolksBit more of a leisurely day today so more time for some blogging. In this one Ill cover Saturday 19 January. Today we were headed in the minibus from Kawai to Ica. En route we stopped in various small towns in the Pisco region. If you remember back to my 2005 trip Pisco is where they produce all the wine and Pisco Sour in Peru. You may also remember various blogs where the CCS gri http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-237791.html Ok this one you'll never believe. So Paul one of the four Hardcore Ica Classroom Builders who I am travelling round Colombia with and I were planning to leave on Saturday morning early to meet Kristina at Lima airport before flying out to Iquitos to meet John on the start of New Year Odyssey down the Amazon to Colombia. Everyone in in Pisco was having a quiet one which suited me just fine http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-232284.html Indeed Ica is now well and truly finished. It's done. 86 or so woven cane classrooms constructed touched up demolished not the ones we built...obviously and rebuilt in the capital of the region. The place the Governor lives. The place that received 10 million soles out of 20 million for reconstruction when Pisco received 5 million and Chincha 3 million. And do you know why it was such a fun http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-230617.html After the earthquakeWe caught a bus from Lima to Pisco and watched Highlander in Spanish on route. A taxi took us to our hotel in Pisco a city devastated by a huge earthquake back in August. It was incredibly sad to see so many demolished buildings and only half of peoples homes left standing. Lots of people seemed to be living in prefabricated houses provided as temporary housing but they http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-223479.html Some interesting observations about Peru. They all think the world thinks they are lazy and all thieves.They dislike and distrust other Peruvians to the extent that they will not allow them into their houses. It must be a lonely life for the Peruvian to categorically refuse any Peruvian friends.Panpipe techno is a musthear. It shall be introduced to the UK music scene very shortly I promise.. http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-219342.html Tom and I were both were both interested in lending a hand and participating in some voluntary work in Peru after hearing about the devastating earthquake in August this year. Tom did a google seach and HODR Hands On Disaster Response came up. We read up on it and decided we should find out more. We sent off an email and that was the beginning of our HODR experience...We arrived in Pisco on Oct http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-214787.html On vous a donn l'habitude de doter ce blog de belles photos de visites touristiques de paisibilit. De vous faire part de nos petits moments de bonheur que nous vivons en Amrique du Sud. Mais cette page sera un peu diffrente. Ce que nous avons vous partager c'est de la dsolation Suite au sisme d'environ 8 sur l'chelle de Richter survenu le 15 aot dernier la ville est compltement d http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-214100.html