El Hotel Sausal Chincha

This week in particular, I ve been helping at a shelter for girls who have been sexually abused and have become pregnant. Its a strong cry to my past clinical experiences. Except here, instead of having social workers, mental health professionals or others on staff, theres a doctor, a social worker and a few tutors and a few volunteers. Except the doctor is a veterinary doctor, the tutors are really just people that help keep order in the class and the rest are people ...

It's only been a few days into my volunteership but I can easily say <br>that I'm already enjoying it and do not regret it at all. This weekend <br>I pretty much did a lot of playing with kids as well as a bit of <br>research into selfesteem and antiviolence programs. (btw psychologists <br>- any info you can provide will be much appreciated) the house I'm <br>staying at is pretty much the only community ...

... and floors to build new houses, mixing and pouring cement, bricklaying, digging foundations etc. (For any other travellers wanting to get invloved, here is the address: http://www.piscosinfronteras.org/)<br>< br> So we arrived and got stuck into various projects throughout our 2 weeks. We worked in teams cutting into the side of a hill with pickaxes and spades so that someone could build a new house, we used sledghammers and jackhammers to remove ...

... boat to view the Ballestas Islands (reported as being the poor mans Galapagos). The islands are home to thousands and thousands of birds, as well as a few sea lions. We saw more boobies... not the blue footed variety, Cormorants and my favourite penguins!<br><br>After this we carried on to a winery, that produces award winning Pisco. We had a tour and had chance to taste various varieties of the drink. Jon´s ...

No dia 09.08 viajamos de Lima em direção ao sul do Peru, a cidade de Chincha Alta, onde gostaríamos de visitar o &#8220;pueblo&#8221; de El Carmen, por ser uma das regiões mais importantes para conhecer a cultura de origem afroperuana. <br><br>Depois de três horas de viajem chegamos ao município de Chincha Alta, onde fomos surpreendidos por um mercado dominical incrivelmente dinâmico, com suas cores, cheiros etc. Vimos muitas frutas daquela regiao como tamarindo ...

... this after Phil and Jen did handstands in<br>the empty pool and came out covered in blue paint. Ica is also know<br>for its huge sand dunes, located around the nearby oasis of<br>Huacachina, the dunes are perfect for sandboarding, therefore half<br>the group went off to do that. <br><br>We left Ica at 4pm and continued on to Pisco, which is a small port town<br>renowned for its production of Pisco&#8212;the white grape bandy produced<br>in the region. The ...

So the 2nd day of the tour the group are really good, we went out in Pisco Last night as we had to sample the local speciality of Pisco Sour! Very nice would recomend it... Today was slightly harder to get up early to go to the Ballesteros Islands to see the Penguins and Sealions poor amns gallapogus but still cool. Then off to the desert to go Sandboarding very hard work climbing back up the dune afterwards but awesome fun.

... middle of a shanty town. We both felt fear I think but you have to trust. We have quickly adapted to the lifestyle and settled into our new life. It is strange to think that our address changes ev**y few days. The freedom is amazing. Once again we w**e blessed with our Hostel, clean sheets, soap, hot wat** and we even managed to bart** the price down! Imagine trying to do that in the UK!! Our confidence is building with this, and can usually bart** rooms down....and ...

After surviving our sanddunes, we opted for a sedate boat ride off the coast of Pisco, on our way up to Lima. <br>Pisco had a 8.0 earthquake in 2007, and the makeshift housing estates showed that it hasn´t come a long way since. The residents are starting to protest against the governments lack of support. <br><br>We jumped on a boat (skippered by Jesus, who is a frequent character in this part of the world, particularly in teh tourism industry we´ve found ...

... a brass band and do the goose step. The uniforms very bright red and blue. Unfortunately security close off the road and you watch it through the bars, but some of the group went on Sunday and they walked around a part of the square. So I think they got the better demonstration. We needed to check out of our room so while we waited for our bus, we sat in the Bar at the Hotel Maury. I was trying to read ...