Ima Sumac Hostel Sacred Valley

... on a pas traine". Petit dejeune collectif (et oui nous sommes partis sans manger) et retour au bus qui nous amene a Chivay et ses eaux chaudes thermales. 1 heure de pur bonheur dans des piscines a + de 35 deg. Dejeune et retour a Arequipa en bus ou nous attend une soiree ac les Flamandes "pas celle de Brel" , les espagnoles et Julio.
Rdv est donne apres une p'tit douche et un peu de repos. Debut de soiree dans un ...

... ayt etudiees e nantes en erasmus...on file ensuite pour lw mirador del condor et ben zerooooooooooo, on en voit aucun!!!!
ensuite ns rejoignons cabanaconde, et cest parti pour la descente de 1200m de denivele, sylv en tete.... tt se passe tres bien, ns avons un tres bon groupe, qui marche bien
on mange ensuite vers les une heure de laprem un e bonne soupe pour requinquer, et le plein de feculents!!!
seulmt les altiligeriens finiront leur assiette ...

In this tour we visited the towns of Pisac, Urubamba (for lunch), Ollantaytambo and Chinchero.
It was a really wonderful day and we had the fortune to have a great guide that explained us many things, with many details and the experience was really great! We passed from various places by the bus but the places where we stopped and had our tour explications were the following:

First of all we visited the town of Pisac. After Ollantaytambo, the most ...

... of the inca´s en Machu Picchu.
Cuzco bavalt me tot nu toe erg goed, maar het wordt ook niet voor niets de gringo hotspot genoemd. Het ligt op 3.300 meter en dat was dus wel weer even wennen. De eerste dag was ik ook weer helemaal kapot. Ik had ook tegen beter weten in een beetje te veel gedaan en te weinig water gedronken.
De landing en vlucht waren super. Je vliegt eerst over de bergen en dan maak je een draai tussen de bergen door om vervolgens weer zowat midden in ...

... filled with stilted and thatched huts, bordered by rice patties and the Amazon jungle.

The boat employees continue to throw things overboard, as do 95% of the locals. The only time the employee showed any remorse for throwing things over the river was when I tried to take a picture of him doing it. The lady next to Andy seemed to be picking lice out of her kids hair. This same toddler ran around ...

... moon and sun :), etc.....
Theirreligious cross is called Chacane and has a very specific form (bought a few for friends and myself so will show you). It represent 3 steps, well used by Inka: Underground, earth and air; or snake, puma and condor. Religion after the invasion of the spanish (bad bad people here ;), became dual and they are now both chretian and inka practicans!
Interesting to see their church and the way they design both at same time the Virgin ...

... 3 hour nap. I made an awkward call on Caryn's cell phone, which I'm happy to report is now working, telling the front desk at the hotel to please ignore the fact that we´d just checked out 45 minutes prior.

We ended up getting to Cusco 4 hours late, which sort of threw off the plans for the next three days. Our guide was waiting for us outside the airport. His introduction went something like this: ¨My name is Jesus. Coincidentally, I was born in Bethlehem. Not the ...

... in the park on this second day here just to be sure we could soak up as much of it as possible.

I was worried about walking up and down the steep stone steps, but we didn't have much trouble. (The elevation is about 8000 feet--much lower than Cusco.) As we toured we wanted to stop and look around often anyway, so we rested frequently while we were looking at the views. In the first photo on the ...

... and put our luggages inside. I sat in the front seat and Mi, in the back.

Carlos drove through several narrowed streets to finally arrive at our hotel, the Novotel. Along the way, narrowed cobblestone streets, beautiful structures with Spanish design architecture, houses with metal wires sticking out of the roof, cracked cemented painted walls, merchants selling newspapers along the road, school children all ...

... topics like religion, global warming, drug trafficking, etc in Spanish. It's really intense and usually leaves my brain feeling fried when I am done. After classes I am working on a volunteer project and at a volunteer job. For my project I am still helping the director of my previous Spanish school to design a curriculum for a new Wawawasi (preschool) that he is starting. For my volunteer job I am working at a children's hospital, its called Hogar Clinica San Juan de ...