Even before going to this city we had looked into the possibilities for climbing mountains here. And upon arrival to Arequipa , Thursday 21st of april in the early morning light, we could see the two towering mountains guarding it. El Misti is a beautiful perfect cone with its peak covered in snow at 5825 meter (19100ft) above sea level. The other is the mountain of Chachani, with many pointy tops, the highest at 6095 meter (19997ft!) above sea level. There w...

At 0200 our alarms started squeaking the best they could, as a result 13 grumpy backpackers crawled out of bed and in to their backpacks ready for 3 - days of trekking. We stumbled out in the van and almost immediately fell asleep, and slept pretty much straight through the 2.5 hour buss-ride to Colca Canyon; one of the deepest canyons in the world. One of the greatest motivations for our trip in Colca Canyon was the high chances of seeing the worlds biggest bir...

Hi everyone. we have oficially left our volunteerwork in pisco. eirik left on monday to go to nazca to experience the desert and the famous nazca lines. I stayed behind and were sick in bed for 4 days, finally getting a weeks antibiotics cure from the doctor on wednesday. A big group from PSF left pisco wednesday afternoon and thursday morning we arrived arequipa. met eirik here, he came on a bus from nazca the same morning. Now we are staying at Home Sweet Home ...

After finally finishing my project in Pisco, wich was delayed time after time because of my scorpion-foot, I took of with two other volunteers, Rachel and Julia, to Nazca. Our mission in Nazca was to see the mystical Nazca lines, preferibly from airplane. The Nazca lines are huge figures drawed in to the desert floor with such precision and amazing symmetri that speculations has been flying everywhere after they were discovered in the 1930´s.. Theories span from...

We've now completed 3 whole weeks in Pisco. And as we wrote on the last post, the first week and a half was a wonderfull experience. Long days of hard work out on site with the Peruvian families, late nights with the other volunteers and desert-trips. After that first period, we've both been struggeling with illness and haven't gotten as much use out of our time as we want to. A typical day at PSF is getting up for breakfast at 07.30, eat and get ready for the d...