Here’s a familiar scene: it’s market day in Cusco, Chichicastenango, Otavalo and hundreds of other cities across Latin America. You start making your way past stalls and it’s all there: jewelry, ponchos, T-shirts, pottery and even those little alpaca dolls you love so much. But r[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cusco’
Cusco on My Mind
If you haven’t heard, there have been terrible floods in Cusco, Peru in the past week. Since we are in the thick of la epoca de la lluvia (the rainy season), rain is expected but the level of destruction seen in the area is unimaginable. Tourism is the main industry in Cusco, and the damage [...][...]
Postcard From the Road: Rain, Landslides and Flooding Around Cusco
Most recently, Gustav Grahn Calminder was a volunteer in India for nine months, teaching math, English and working in a children’s home. Before India he studied photography in Finland and England and views photography as a way to explore and see the world. Now he is traveling in South America,[...]
Estaré en Paz en La Paz (I Will Be at Peace in La Paz)
Hi La Vida Idealist! My name is Sheethal Shobowale. For six months, I am serving as a Kiva Fellow in South America, working with two Kiva partner microfinance institutions in Peru (Asociación Arariwa in Cusco) and Bolivia (Emprender in Laz Paz). I have pretty much lived my whole life in New York, [...]
