April 20th-25th **This post is truncated because there are a lot of photos. Please read on to see more! We returned to Cusco just in time for Easter Sunday. We hadn't really packed church-appropriate Easter attire, so we decided not to try to go to a local mass. Instead, we walked around some. We actually … Continue reading Days 8-13 in Peru: Cusco, Orphanage, and Peruvian Lit Class
**Note: I am writing these posts now that I am home and have reliable internet. This post is about April 19th. For anyone who is just now stopping in, I went on a 3-week study abroad trip to Peru to learn about the culture and study Peruvian literature.** **I am truncating this post due to … Continue reading Day 7 in Peru: Machu Picchu and Aguas Calientes
*I am now home and able to catch up on my posts about my 3-week study abroad in Peru, so this post is going back almost three weeks to April 18th. We were supposed to depart from Cusco at 3:30 AM to rejoin the rest of our group at Ollantaytambo, but the bus driver called … Continue reading Day 6 in Peru: Inca Trail and Aguas Calientes
**I am writing these posts quite a bit after the fact, now that I am home. This post is about April 15th and 16th. We got up really early (3:00 AM) on Wednesday the 16th to board the bus for a very long bus ride on a very windy road to the place where we … Continue reading Day 4 and 5 in Peru
**I am back home now, so over the course of the next several days I will be catching you up on my trip- I never realized this post wasn't published (oops!), so I wanted to note that this is about April 15th, not yesterday. The rest of the posts will likely be a bit shorter, … Continue reading Day 3 in Peru: Chinchero, Ollantaytambo, and Pisac
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