Greetings from Arequipa!! After leaving Pucara, we spent a couple of days in Quito to prepare ourselves for Peru. Some of us ate some bad bus food and suffered the consquences, but it wasn't anything too serious. Our last night in Quito we all went out for a nice dinner with a beautiful view of Quito at night and had some great gringo food and pancakes and apple pie! The… Read More

Our group has a certain Achilles Heel for food, especially sweets, so I thought it was time to do an in-depth blog about the amazing foods we have been eating on this trip. First off, let's give a basic overview of our eatin habits so far. Our meals have mostly consisted of rice, fried eggs, avocados, some type of soup as an appetizer, lots of plantains cooked every-which way, lentils… Read More

This week has been our student directed travel. We started in Tena and stayed for two extra days to go see the Jumandi Caves. We had a great time there in the dark. After that day in Tena we bought our tickets to Otalavo. After a long bus ride it was really relieving to get to a nice hostal, but figuring out who was going to stay in wich room… Read More

Hi everyone! Sunteaohna and I have been exploring Quito today on our scavenger hunt. Its a really amazing city and weve had a lot of fun navigating around. We checked out the Basilica, a really old and beautiful church overlooking most of the city and successfully used our Spanish skills to order food and buys some things in various stores. I wish I could post a photo, but I dont… Read More