Friday-Sunday, March 10-12. Maria visited Trent, in Cusco, and Mark, in the small village of Lucre outside of Cusco, where the rest of the group had been during our week of traveling through the Sacred Valley toward Machu Picchu. She will post a description of the visit later, but…
Sunday – Tuesday, March 19-21. Doug visited these three students in Ayacucho, a small city of about 200,000 in the central Andes. Goshen students have worked here for several years, although all three students this semester are working at new locations. Amber and Tanner both work at a health…
Monday – Tuesday, March 13-14. Maria visited Vanessa in Arequipa, at the southern end of Peru in the desert at the foot of the Andes mountains. She will post a description of the visit later, but for now, here are the pictures. Vanessa with her host…
Wednesday-Thursday, March 8-9. Doug, Maria and Katie arrived in Vito Wednesday afternoon after a lengthy 3-hour taxi ride over, what seemed, the top of the world and down into a deep valley with a ledge holding the small village of Vito. Goshen has a special connection with this town;…
Katie’s family: Mayli, Adolfo, Charmely, and Silvestra. Tuesday-Wednesday, March 7-8. Katie is the first student to have this village as her service assignment. The connection was made through Katie’s host family in Lima: the host mother of Katie’s service family is the sister of Katie’s host mother…
Wednesday, February 22. The good part of visiting Machu Picchu in February is that this is the tourist “low season,” meaning there are fewer crowds to contend with. The bad part of “low season” is the reason few tourists come now: it rains frequently and the ruins can be…
Tuesday, February 21. We awoke in this Incan village containing some of the oldest continually-occupied homes in the Americas. The constant rain the previous night had us worried that we may not be able to tour two sets of ruins planned for the day, but we were fortunate when,…
Everyone had a good laugh. Monday, February 20. After breakfast with our families in Lucre and Huacarpay we headed through the Andean mountains for three stops on our way winding towards Machu Picchu: Chinchero: Although the remains of an ancient Incan temple and terraces are here, the…
Sunday, February 19. Last night all the students were left in pairs at the homes of Mennonite families in the villages of Huacarpay and Lucre. The guys spending the night in Lucre (whom will not be not identified as Mark, Tyler and Rowan), upon seeing the village’s artificial turf…
Saturday, February 18 Dusti exits a cave underneath the fortress of Pukapukara. During our first full day we visited four places with odd-sounding names — Tambomachay, Pukapukara, Q’enko, and Sacsaywaman – which after the visits became identified with different Incan purposes, designs, construction styles, and histories. After…
