Events like Semana Santa in the Peruvian city of Ayacucho attract many foreign visitors - but do these gringo travelers bring help or harm to developing communities? Matt Finch of La Vida Idealist spoke with Lloyd Boutcher of UK travel operators Sunvil and Georgina Davies of the Travel Foundation to[...]
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Holy Week in Ayacucho
It’s Good Friday, and on the streets of Ayacucho, the final preparations are being made for the Easter Weekend. For more than a week now, this quiet Andean city has been abuzz with a spirit of fiesta. In a town where everyone knows everyone else’s business, suddenly there are strange faces on th[...]
Water for Life
Semana Santa is just beginning in Ayacucho, Peru, and the city is in the final stages of preparation for its biggest week of the year. As municipal gardens were trimmed and the streets cleaned ready for a vast influx of tourists, the central plaza gave itself over to a schoolchildren’s procession [...]
April 9th, 2011 - 8:26 am § in Around Town, Peru
Escrutinio
It’s almost election day in Ayacucho, and the city is officially dry for forty-eight hours leading up to the polls. There’s not a drop of alcohol to be had, unless you’re a needy gringo with enough nous to talk their local corner store into an under-the-counter sale! [...]
Rimaykullayki!
I'm a British writer-educator who's come straight from Manhattan to provincial Peru. But, as I found out, there’s nothing like hopping one-legged through a crowd of bemused Peruvians to keep you grounded. So take off a shoe and hop along with me, as we take a look at teaching and learning off the [...]
