April 10: Lima

ROSENDA: Today, we are here in Lima. We went on a bus ride and went to see a museum (Inquisition museum). It’s a museum that talks about how the Catholic church tortured people. We also saw the Catacombs and saw real bones and saw how the Catholics buried bones. We went to a cooking class and we made interesting things and they tasted really good. My favorite dish was the fish mixed with different things and it’s a common food here in Peru. The fish was with lemons, onions and some chile, it’s really good. We had vinegar wine, rice mixed with French fries. Again, everything was really good. For dessert, we had something really interesting. It’s well known here, pretty simple “hand food.” That’s it- we’re really full and we will go to sleep early. Good bye.

Video: The changing of the guard.

Group picture at Plaza de Armas.

This is the Congress building and a statue of Simon Bolivar. He is known as the George Washington of South America.

The Inquisition Museum. During htis time, the Catholic Church tortured those who did not abide by the rules.

The San Francisco Catacombs.

Learning to cook at the The Sky Kitchen with Yurac.

The national flag of Peru.

April 9: The Amazon-Iquitos-Lima

ZACHERY:  Hello, we spent our last day in the Amazon. It was bittersweet for us. We went to the monkey island and saw different monkeys. We also saw a huge snake then we took the boat back to Iquitos. Going down the Amazon took us three hours. Going back to Iquitos, we went against the current and it took us five hours. All of our butts were really sore and we were happy to get back into town. We went to the airport and after some delays, we finally arrived in Lima. Whoa, it was a really long day. It is now past midnight now. All of us are crashing and we are going to sleep now. Good night.

This is a boat filled with bananas and papayas en route Iquitos for the market



Caldonia enjoying the monkey island with monkeys around us.

Amberley with a spider monkey

Michael holding an Anaconda. It is the world's largest snake.



April 8: The Amazon

CALDONIA:  Hello, this is our dinner. Rice and fried catfish. What did we do? We had a mini Easter then we went boating to see the pink dolphins. We saw many dolphins and some were gray, others were pink. Some of us jumped in the water and went swimming. We enjoyed ourselves. We saw a sloth in a tree and it was hard to get down- very relaxed. We could pet it. We returned to the lodge to eat lunch and then went to a village called Palmeras. They have lots of cows, chickens and children. They were playing. There’s a hill by the river. We were finally able to walk on land then we went back to eat dinner and we are content.

This is the village of Palmeras, home to the Yagua Indians. (Jen’s note: See Gary’s boots J) Gary also says to make a note of the soccer field that’s submerged in water.

Rosenda petting a three toed sloth.

We saw pink dolphins around us.

We went swimming hoping to catch the pink dolphins.