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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ayacucho’
August 28th, 2009 - 10:22 am § in Around Town, Peru
The Harder Days
I am talking with a friend about the prevalence of domestic violence in Ayacucho, and frankly, how it seems certain communities are socially accepting of men who beat their wives. Domestic violence is seen as a solution to keep a woman in line, force them into change or acceptance of change, and m[...]
August 14th, 2009 - 2:29 am § in Peru
For the Best Fruit, You Gotta Go Out on a Limb
One of the strangest (and sometimes dangerous) things that happens to me when I travel is that, as soon as I overcome the fear of releasing the comforts of home and board the plane, I magically lose all inhibitions. On my first volunteer trip, to East Africa in 2007, I was newly engaged to be [[...]
