We have just come back from a weeks holiday, two days spent in Lima with friends, and then four days in Huaraz, a town 8 hours on the bus north of Lima. It is quite a journey to get there, with the flight to Lima and then the bus journey, but the boys are used to travelling! They slept a good part of the way there, with the journey being afternoon and evening, and then we got a night bus back.
Our main reason for going to Huaraz was to visit several Latin Link friends there who are all part of a project centred on a children's home. They also work with street boys, have set up workshops to provide work opportunities (Roland went last year to help with the business side of these), and run a lunch club and after school club - this was something I was keen to see in order to help with our mountain project.
So we spent some of the time with our friends, both socially and looking at various aspects of the project, and some time exploring the local area - amazing scenery as Huaraz is near the foot of Peru's highest mountain.
We found a lovely hostel to stay in with a breakfast room with the most amazing view and a big fireplace for the evenings. Being up in the mountains the town has a similar climate to Cusco with hot days and cold nights at this time of year. The boys sleep in the room with us when we go to hostels which doesn't always give us all a good night's sleep, and they can get rather over-excited and over-tired on a holiday like this, but overall we had a good time.
One of the highlights was playing with the children in the home. At one point I was reading stories in English with Sammy translating into Spanish! We also went on a fun day trip with them and several of the older girls were so good looking after our boys.
For photos of our trip click here.
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