Meredith's Peruvian Adventures

To congratulate myself for finishing my essay, I went to Indian restaurant #3 of the 3 I had identified in Cusco, and accidentally...

Today I went back to the local church I’d found, although my friend from last week couldn’t join me since her family was taking her...

I spent most of the morning working on the second midterm essay, so I could be free in the evening to celebrate the birthday of one of my...

After class on Thursday, I went with some friends to an Indian restaurant close to the Plaza de Armas. The owner is an Indian lady, and...

We were told that our Quechua final would be an individual oral presentation with no notes, but it turned out we were introducing our...

My friend wasn’t quite able to wake up early enough for the 7 am mass at the San Blas temple, so we made plans to visit a different local...

On Friday, we took an early morning flight out of Arequipa back to Cusco, and then had all day to rest and catch up on emails. I don’t...

We did go back to the crepe restaurant for brunch, and its breakfast menu was just as fantastic! I wish we had this place in Cusco. After...

Another early morning today, this time to hopefully catch a glimpse of the famous condors flying over the Colca Valley. We were lucky,...

After saying goodbye to our host families, we got back on the ferry to Puno and were all extremely relieved to be back in the land of hot...

This morning I woke up feeling a little under the weather, but our fabulous host mom brought me a mate de Santa María, a local herb, and...

Breakfast today was even better—our host mom made us some fried bread called cachanga and cute little egg sandwiches. After breakfast, we...

This morning our host mom made us “pancakes” for breakfast (more like a crepe), and then told us we’d rest for a while and then go carry...

This morning, we took a ferry to the floating islands of Uros, which are constructed out of reeds. The president of the island himself...

Tuesday was spent packing for a 10-day educational excursion, which started off today in Puno. We took an early morning flight to Juliaca...

These days were mostly spent polishing up my essay, but I did get to sneak in some adventuring nonetheless. Sunday was perhaps the first...

I woke up bright and early today to take advantage of the last day our tourist tickets to all the local ruins was valid. I met a couple...

Today’s snack courtesy of Julia my angel was tequeños, a puff pastry snack filled with cheese originally from Venezuela, about which I...

We’re all starting to get a little bogged down with classes--seems like it’s midterm season already even though we haven’t even had two...