Hello family and friends! The students are on the final leg of their journey and excited to see your smiling faces soon! The group is in route to Lima and then to Miami (except Jackson who goes El Salvador directly to California) and beyond.......Read More
On this trip we were lucky enough to participate in a water ceremony, and learned how sacred water is and how the Patcha Mama (Mother Earth) and all the Apus (mountain spirits) can be felt through immersion in water. While I have always felt this......Read More
I just packed for the last time on this trip. After almost three months of packing my bag at least once a week, you´d think it would get easier, but let me tell you, it does not. Fitting three months´ worth of memories and souveneirs into the same......Read More
Sitting in a Cusco bound bus up winding around a mountain overlooking Urubamba I took my last looks at the city. I began to feel sad. Really, really sad. I saw the different parts of the city and thought about my time spent with the group, my host......Read More
En el mundo hay muchas historias que nos llenan de inspiración, parte del motivo por el que viajo es para tener la dicha de escuchar algunas de estas. No saben lo agradecida que me siento de haber podido escuchar una de estas durante nuestro......Read More
Hello all, This lovely story begins with me feeling very tired and sick. The group was at L.P.A.C., the Las Piedras Amazon Center, during our expedition phase and there was a chocolate making activity at the Lucerna community a little ways down the......Read More
I’ve always wanted to visit the amazon, ever since elementary school when the class would listen to the teacher tell us about unimaginable wildlife like 30 ft snakes and butterflies bigger than our heads. Since then I was prepared, ready to......Read More
The past 10 days in the Amazon were awesome! These photos are of some of the things we saw including locals (Willy and Alberto), making cocoa, and Macaws!...Read More
During orientation at the beginning of our course, our group talked about how each interaction we have should be transformational rather than transactional. As a part of a transformational interaction, we stressed the imprtance of an exchange of......Read More
Hello friends and family! We are headed back to our Sacred Valley home of Urubamba which marks the end of our expedition phase. During this time students took the group on an amazing journey to the Amazon. We took an overnight bus to Puerto......Read More
What do you think of ,when someone says the word “amazon” ? Probably stories of the wilderness, the incredible variety of fauna and maybe also the hard living conditions ,we are not adapted to. I have realized during the time we spent in......Read More
Dear Fall 2017 Andes and Amazon Group C Semester Families, It is hard to believe that 3 months have passed since your student embarked on this incredible adventure! It won’t be long until students will be boarding their planes back home. We are......Read More
The dream team has assembled: Rebecca, Raquel, Molly, Wes, Ned and I. We are ready to take on Boca Community Volleyball Team, a group of locals determined to defend their court and have a lot of fun doing it. After three days of defeat and......Read More
Photos from our time at Boca Community with Fauna Forever...Read More
