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Tacna Slideshow
Tacna
Travel Blogs from Tacna, Peru
Peruvian pan-handlers
... 'on the town'. A couple of (potent) pisco sours later and we were in taxis with the production team leading us to Tacna's gay night club. It took quite a bit of persuasive discussion through the sliding hatch in the door to get into the ...
Day 5 - More Construction
DAY 5 (Monday, July 7) Today the guys split into the two teams again. Team Mx2 (the Mikes) + Jeff, Greg and Alex (our Peruvian friend) worked on a house for 2 sisters, their children and their mother. Mike D noted that there aren't any men in this ...
running for the border
... me how to take a safe overnight bus. He even called the bus station to find out what time buses left for Tacna. I recommend visiting their office on calle Jerusalen with any question. They seemed more eager to help than the people at the tourism info ...
Last Call for Presentations
It is somewhat a bittersweet day for us. Today was our last day of presentations. We went to a park we presented in 2 years ago, which is a short walk from the Local Central church, and to a concrete soccer field (much like the one used to look like ...
Independence, a Birthday and a Wedding
... did not really celebrate Independence. Our Saturday began early with a somewhat unexpected presentation at the Local Central (LC) church (in Tacna proper). We rose at 7, breakfasted at 7:30 and were out the door around 8:30. We basically did a run ...
Day 4 Inca Trail
Day 4 Inca Trail Very early wake up call at 4am. As we had already tipped our guides and porters, there was no hot coca tea served to our tent door and breakfast was very basic (finally!) By the time we were trying to find some dry clothes, the porters ...
40 hrs on a bus is officially too much!
... without having them taken away, even when the same guy who took my juggling balls saw them. Anyways, around 5pm, I arrive min Tacna international terminal and head to the cash machine to get some money to buy a ticket to Arequipa. There are 2 suspicious ...
Day 10: Oansa Games, Presentations and Crafts
... games, a lesson, some kind of presentation (which I think they might have invented so they could use our skits) and an activity, like a craft. We brought 2 crafts that accompanied our puppet skits. We spread these over the 2 Saturdays we were in ...
Day 12: Shopping and Walking in Tacna
... Julio Vienteocho (July Twenty-Eighth), which we call 28. You can buy all the regular necessities of life here, such as clothing, bathing items, shoes, etc. Of course, things here are a lot cheaper in Peru than they are at home, which lends to its ...
Welcome to Peru
... that we would go back to the border, pick up my card and cross back into Chile and take an airplane into Arequipa, Peru. Well.... we got to the airport.... I don't think I have ever seen such an empty airport. Apparently this particular ...
From Services to Soccer - Round 2
... ... and so it did through lunch at the local Polleria. Though I am extremely loyal to El Pollon, which is in the central part of Tacna, I have to say that this place was really good. This afternoon we traveled up to NJ for their service. Mark preached and ...
Home is Where the Heart is...
Or so the saying goes. I think several of us have left parts of our hearts (at least) behind with us in Tacna. Our last day consisted of packing and cleaning and shopping and lunching (because who can do without the biggest most delicious meal of the ...
Back into Peru
... our tickets to Nazca for that evening we caught a minibus into town for 10p. We both cheered up after realising how cheap Peru actually was, especially compared to Chile. We had some drinks for a very reasonable price at a nice cafe off the plaza and had ...
3,2,1, pisco-go
... dig, peruvian-flag-as-projection-screen, temporary radio station and 12 hours of general mayhem. Definately the first time Tacna has experienced anything like it. Whilst we were waiting to load the lorry to return materials and equipment to ...
Waiting
Heute habe ich die Grenze nach Peru ueberquert... alles genau nach Plan! Jetzt habe ich noch 5 Wochen in Peru uebrig... Zusammen mit der Suedafrikanerin hab ich mich auf den Weg gemacht. Allerdings wollte sie weiter nach Pisco weil sie schon im Sueden war ...
Peru!
... and was an hour early for my bus! Arequipa next, lets see what that brings! I think (hope) that the rest of peru might be nicer than Tacna suggests. (As soon as can i will upload some photos of the trains, bet you all canīt ...
A Fu Quing Good Time in Tacna
Tacna, Peru 7-13-10 I boarded a bus to Tacna at 7 a.m. for a six-hour journey (perhaps the word “journey” is an exaggeration for six hours in a recliner) through the scenic high deser of southern Peru. Again, I had the best possible seat ...
Tacna
... Chile conquered almost all of south Peru and even invaded Lima, the Chilean's gave the inhabitants of Tacna the freedom to choose with country they'd like to belong to, and they decided to stay with Peru. Nowadays it is known as the Heroic City of ...
Tourists in Arica
Today we slept in almost as late as we wanted. We ate breakfast at our own individual paces and were prepared to leave as soon as Brian was going to arrive at 9AM. Despite our readiness, we still left late. It's part of the Peruvian culture. It's also a ...
Long journey
... dry dessert nothing for the next 23 hours. It is true some of the time it was dark, but every visable thing from La Seren to Tacna appers to be dessert. much of it the type of dessert where you cannot see one green item in the sand. Other parts had only ...
The Border Town
... people employed by the tourism board. We felt ok about him after that and he was still cheerfully talking our ear off about Peru and Tacna. He and Eric sat and talked for about 30 minutes while I was buying our bus tickets for the next day to Arequipa. ...
Apr 16, 2011
Day 5: Three Presentations
... call at the Art Institute and 6 or 7 people raised their hands! After our presentation our friend William (a caretaker at the Tacna Central church where we stayed this year) gave us a tour of the institute where he once studied. Our third presentation ...
La Frontera
... nostalgia por irme de viaje por tanto tiempo, era raro este sentimiento puesto que nunca habia sentido esto antes. Bueno llegamos a Tacna bien temprano como a las 10.45am, sali del terminal de Flores que esta justo atras del terminal internacional, donde ...