Ayacucho Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Ayacucho is known for the best Semana Santa (holy week before Easter) celebrations of Peru. I witnessed the first three of those days and it was spectacular. Especially the new, low-key addition, sand mozaics that were trampled by a procession. Photos here:
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Eh oui! La partie "tourisme" de mon voyage est maintenant achevée, je vais passer le prochain mois a Ayacucho afin d'aider dans un orphelinat, la Casa Hogar Los Gorriones.

Ayacucho est une ville tres jolie située dans les haut plateaux andins, a mi-chemin entre Lima et Cusco. Malgrée sa belle architecture et la proximité de site archéolog...

Well this last week in Ayacucho has been really nice, and I can´t believe that it has been 7 weeks! My last few days at work have been slow, but it was nice to spend my last week at the clinic, when I spent so much of my first month out doing the vaccine campaign. (Not that I am complaining.) Yesterday I was with one of the doctors, Betty, and ...

As it turned out, the days of strike went pretty smoothly. On Tuesday morning, I woke up to the 6:20 pre-dawn and decided to go see what a city put on freeze looked like. I bundled up, and brought my book and blanket up to the roof. Speaking of which, I did something this week that I haven't done since middle school: I finished three whole novel...

Well the strike went by without much fuss - they gave some speeches saying that the marines should leave and they burned a few American flags, but no tear gas or rocks thrown like in Cusco last year. So in my opinion, pretty mild. But there weren´t any cars on the roads, and nobody went to work, so I just hung out and read and ate endless amoun...

After a weekend of relaxing in Ayacucho, I began my second volunteer work week. I woke up around 8 on monday morning to find out that my placement was closed....i have no idea why. one of the boys that i was working with asked me where i was going to go for the day. hmmmm let me jump back in bed and think about it. i thought and thought and thou...

helllooo family and friends, So I offically have one more week here with CCS (my program) and its ridiculous how fast time has flown. Since its recently dawned on me how little time I have left I have significantly overbooked my final week. I´ll recap this past week first. The lab has been really awesome this week because the doctors and biology...

On Tuesday I was in a parade. They seem to love parades here, and seldom does a day pass when one doesn't at least hear a funeral parade, a keep the streets clean parade, a school sports team parade, or some parade celebrating the day of Santa someone or San so-and-so. These parades, whatever the occasion, seem to include a respectably sized bra...

Wow...wow..and more wow. That´s definitely not enough wows to describe my weekend but im pressed for time. So friday we left after lunch for our adventure on a really smelly bus. It was okay though because we had reclining seats to make up for it. Anyways...we started driving at 2 and got there about 8:30 at ngiht. The drive was by far the most ...

hey all! just finished my first week of volunteer work in ayacucho. monday was orientation. half of the new batch of volunteers loaded the bus and were off to visit some of the other placements. We first visited a wawa wasi. this is a place where parents who work in the market bring their small children, 3 yrs and younger, somewhat of a preschoo...