Nazca is a beautiful city of Ica district, located in the middle of the desert, although has an altitude of 590 meters. It has a population of 57500 habitants. Each year millions of tourists visit the city, especially to fly over the Nazca Lines, declared...
Last friday, the last day of no school (closed because of the H1N1 flu ), before the 2 weeks holidays, we organised a treasure hunt for the children of the center. We wanted to organise a nice surprise as a nice way to say goodbye although most of us...
This weekend is the beginning of the holidays for all the kids in Peru. So, this was my last week with the kids from the school and from the aldea. Yesterday, I saw them for the last time. And even though I knew before I left from France that this day...
As were explaining Cecile, here, there are days for everything... Lately we just seem to have a new day, every day... And that's how, last time we celebrated farmers' day! To do so, three children of the aldea participated at a dance in the coliseum of...
I am going to tell you about the teacher's day of 6th of jul (but celebrated the 5th). Before starting with this celebration, I'd like to talk about how surprised I am of the frequency of celebrations in Peru. I have the feeling that every that every...
The “Chaccu” is the mainly festivity of the country of Pampas Galeras, near the Peruvian city of Ayacucho, in the Andes. It is every year on the 24th of June and takes 3 days. There are two more chaccus along the year, in July and in August. Exactly it...
In Peru, religion is a very important matter. When I entered in the differents churchs of Nasca or in the other cities we visited, I always saw differents Virgin Mary with differents names and, often, the Virgin is the one in the center of the chruch...
When I arrived in Peru , I noticed that the population was doing really weird things with theirs hands. At first, when they waved me to come I was confused; when the kids counted I was wondering what they were doing... In short, I wanted to know more...
Nasca is a city because is located on a tectonic plate, in the middle of the desert. Here people are used to earthquakes, in fact they know all safety measures in case of this calamity and they don’t have panic. All buildings in our village are safe,...
This is the little moment I love!! When I have time to escape a bit from the asociation, I take a colectivo (car used as public transportation, you go to the city center for 1 sol) toward Nascas main place (called Plaza de armas as in any city of Peru)....
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