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South America » Peru » Ica » Pisco July 17th 2009

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 vores projekt-leder os noget vin at fejre det hele med, plus laekker chokolade..namnam. Christan har helt sikkert vaeret stjernen i bygge-projektet, det er altsaa helt utroligt, saa dygtig han er. Det tog lige en halv dag, for projekt lederen at indse det, og siden da, har christan vaeret den som blev spurgt til raads om alt. og faktist ogsaa naesten den ... read more

South America » Peru » Ica » Pisco July 15th 2009

helloeoeoe, igen..saa har man sku lige bygget hus i dag..eller naesten da, vi blev ikke helt ferdige...alt det der med vater-pas 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..hehe Nej tvatl..men det har igen idag vaeret en helt fantastisk god dag. Vi skulle hjaelpe en famile med at sammle et "saml-selv-hus", og ja, da det havde vaeret oppe en gang, et andet sted, hos en anden famile, var det taget lidt underligt fra hindanden. Dette medfoerte at det var lidt svaert at faa det hele til at passe sammen igen. Men uanset, med lidt taenkning, og ... read more

South America » Peru » Ica » Pisco July 13th 2009

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 fundaments-rande 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 at hjaelpe dem, lavede de frokost til os, laekker pasta og kylling, som vi slugte i en mund:) Det udstyr vi havde til at grave randen med, var to punkterede trilleboerer, 4 skovle, en stor muggert, 4 hakker, og et jernspyd. Stedet hvor renden som skulle graves, har jo foer end jordskelvet vaeret et hus fundament, saa det var ... read more

South America » Peru » Ica » Pisco February 9th 2009

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´s where to get off! By the way, when in Lima, a little girl walked past us, smiled and said "Ola gringo´s." We got back on another bus and went back down the road to Pisco. It´s a nice little that was decimated by a huge earth quake 2 years ago. Still lots of ruins and we ... read more
Diving Penguin
Noisy Sea Lions
Pisco Plaza

South America » Peru » Ica » Pisco January 18th 2009

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 can´t 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 hostels by now, and wanted something different, so I signed up to be a manual labourer in a town called Pisco that had been hit by an earthquake 14 months ago. Little did I know how different the volunteer tourism experience would be. I am never going to forget walking into the Pisco San Fronteras Voluntarios building for the first time. A ... read more

South America » Peru » Ica » Pisco November 3rd 2008

Mixto is a man, arguably ‘the’ 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 “Professor Plumb”). To install this sink, we must drill holes in the concrete wall for the bolts. Naturally the holes in the wall must line up with the holes in the sink, so there is a bit of plumber eyeing involved (plumber eyeing - to use one’s plumber eye in order to measure something’s distance or relative position). Ravi holds the sink to the wall, I mark the holes where the drilling will be done, and Mixto makes sure the sink is level so the water ... read more
Mixto Mike
Honest Tear
Sanitation Unit

South America » Peru » Ica » Pisco October 8th 2008

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 (NZ$5) and asked one of the people at the hostel to book a taxi. We arrived at the Ormeño bus terminal 1130, checked our luggage for the 1330 bus to Pisco S40 each (NZ$20) and found a taxi to take us to San Isidro district for some last-minute sightseeing. Unfortunately the Huaca Huallamarca (Aztec pyramid) was closed. Our driver recommended Museo de Oro del Peru and we arrived there at 1220. Luis, our driver, ... read more

South America » Peru » Ica » Pisco August 16th 2008

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 our private bus to Pisco. Everyone who knows me knows how bad I am at timekeeping so I found being on time rather stressful but I have no choice as i'm in a group!! I was ready to go at 1.50pm but then spent the next 15 mins sitting on my bloody rucksack ... read more
Chicken anyone?
Yummy
I´m sure my house was here somewhere..

South America » Peru » Ica » Pisco August 14th 2008

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 it´s 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 it´s unheard of to just drink a glass of milk. In fact they look at you like you´re crazy if you ask for one, and they try to put it in your coffee for you. The eggs, though, have been the same everwhere we´ve eaten them: runny. And if there ever was a place I don´t want to eat runny eggs, it´s in a developing country ... read more

South America » Peru » Ica » Pisco August 10th 2008

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, and of course I was a natural, but you couldnt go that fast so we sat two on one and sped down the dune. I also took the time to walk all the way to the top of one of the highest dunes which took about an hour, but was worth it, as it was pure desert and amazing and nothing around! We ... read more
Oasis
Sexy Amy
Me hard at work




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