http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Peru , Ica , Pisco en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:43:25 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:43:25 +0000 Wel da ni wedi neud cymaint mewn cyn lleied o amser dwim yn gwybod le i ddechra Dydd Llun aethom ni ar y bws i Paracas. Odd o yn ganol nunlla so mi oeddan nin dau mor falch o weld Marco fffrind Jose syn byw yn Pisco. Aethom ni tri mewn taxi i Pisco lle roedd Marco wedi bwcio ni mewn i hotel bach del. Ar ol gadael ein bagiau ni yn y hotel ymlaen i Milsy tours oedd hi i benderfynnu be o http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-437713.html snoeoeoefft....det er vores sidste aften her i Pisco og det er naesten med klump i halsen at vi skal forlade dette sted. Vi har simpelthen nydt saa meget at vaere her..De sidste to par dage har vi vaeret med til at grave en rende. I denne rende bliver der i naeste uge lagt nogle vandroer saa at 40 husstande der ikke har havt vandforsyning siden jordskaelvet igen kan faa rindende vand Det har http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-419836.html weee..vi har klaret det. Vi har sku bygget et hus til en gammel dame paa tre dage og efter i dag har hun et sted at gaa i lae for regnen og vinden...hold kaeft hvor er det bare en dejlig foelelse. I skulle have set hendes ansigt da vi sagde farvel til hende i dag hun var bare saa taknemlig..at ja...sikke en dejlig foelelse det gav.For at fejre vores fantastiske bygge projekts afslutning gav vo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-419294.html helloeoeoe igen..saa har man sku lige bygget hus i dag..eller naesten da vi blev ikke helt ferdige...alt det der med vaterpas og det tager lidt mere tid naar 4 drenge skal vaere med i byggeriet...hvis vi piger fik lov til at bestemme lidt mere saa ville man faa det hus op i loebet af ingen tid med en fin stor roed sloejfe til at holde det hele sammen..heheNej tvatl..men det har igen idag vae http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-418703.html Huff puff saa har vi lige faaet afsluttet vores foerste dag som frivillige her i Pisco og jeg skal love for at det kan maerkes. Hele vores kroppe summer i muskel oemhed.Projektet som vi har vaeret med i i dag var at grave en fundamentsrande til et hus. Menneskerne der plejede at bo paa grunden foer jordskelvet tog deres hus bode lige ved siden af i et lille trae skur. Som tak for at vi gad http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-418267.html Before we begin a word from our sponsors Despite the Sendero Luminoso murders in Ayacucho and the U.S. State departmentrsquos warden message everything is quite calm here in Lima and Irsquom in no immediate danger of any kind. But thanks for your concernAnd back to our regularly scheduled broadcastingIn case you were unaware last week was Semana Santahellipwhich in a catholic country http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-390746.html Lima was fantastic and a great introduction to Peru. If we had more time we definately would have stayed longer.We left Hotel Espana which was very nice and caught a bus to a town called Pisco famous for a drink called th Pisco sour we are sampling them tonight in fact. We got off the bus to find that we were in a place called Ica about 75 km past Pisco. No one thought to tell the two gringo http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-372055.html When I arrived in Lima I was starting to get a bit fed up with travelling. The twenty one hour unairconditioned bus ride from Cusco to Lima next to a snoring lump who cant keep his elbows to himself starts to seem like eternity after the two thousandth hairpin bend. I got talking to an English couple who were volunteering for 6 months in Ecuador and Peru. I was sick of sightseeing buses and ho http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-366394.html Woke up feeling like an ashtray and with a pounding head around 0900 and had a few coffees at the hostel before Jo woke. We had seen a bus company office in Barranco on our first night but as expected at the wee small hour of 0930 it was closed. We had breakfast of chicken sandwich and a coffee S10 NZ5 and asked one of the people at the hostel to book a taxi. We arrived at the Ormeo bus http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-363942.html Mixto is a man arguably lsquothersquo man yet so much more that the three letter word does not do him justice. Mixto is honesty. It all started the day he Ravi and I first tried to install a sink onto our first Sanitation unit without Connor our mentor aka ldquoProfessor Plumbrdquo. To install this sink we must drill holes in the concrete wall for the bolts. Naturally the h http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/Ica/Pisco/blog-341378.html 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 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