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March 21~Depart
Los Angeles (also NY or Miami)
Arrive
Lima. Settle in at Hotel Bolivar, a hotel which boasts colonial architecture
and is located on Lima's Plaza de San Martin. Meals: LD (in flight) Hotel:
Bolivar
March 22~Lima
Tour
the National Museum of Peru. Transfer to the Museum of the Inquisition
OR journey to the south of Lima to tour Project Inti-Raymi and explore
the manner in which artisans create small businesses as they produce woolens,
ceramics, and other products BL Bolivar
March 23~Lake
Titicaca Basin/Puno
Take
sack breakfast on the run for early departure. Hear presentations by the
ADRA/Peru director as well as the former director of the National Library
of Peru, whose definitive published works assert: "With the coming
of the Adventists to Puno indigenous education proceeded with unanticipated
and transcendent results. For the first time the indigenous acceded to
letters, to hygiene, and to a consciousness of his own identity."
Following a flight to the Andes, settle into a small, family-run hotel
in the historic town of Puno. Rest! BL Sillustiani
March 24~Lake
Titicaca Basin/Puno
Visit
Colegio Fernando Stahl, tour the Stahl home, and worship with a
congregation on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The bolar hats and layered
skirts worn by the Aymara women signal authentic indigenous life in the
Andean country side. (Observe whether the church offering includes bagged
chickens, as was the case with our visit las year!) Following lunch, sail
to lake Titicaca's "floating islands" and a school for the Uros
inhabitants built by La Sierra students. BL Sillustiani
March 25~Puno--Sacred
Valley-Cusco
Take
a day-long tour motor coach ride to Cusco. View majestic mountain vistas
and note vast topographical and agricultural changes en route--pondering
on the manner in which "place" determines such factors as temperment,
access, economics, and mobility. BL Corihuasi
March 26~Cusco
Bask
in picturesque Cusco, once capitol of the Inca Empire. Admire hewn monuments.
Tour the Inca Museum and the Coricancha. Experience the syncretism of
Pre-Inca, Inca, and Colonial religion and culture as expressed through
art and architecture. Visit the shop of the major supplier of woolens
to the upscale North American firm, "Peruvian Connections."
Shop the charming plaza for alpaca, and ceramic goods. BL Corihuasi
March 27~Cusco--Machu
Picchu--Cusco
Via
narrow-gauge train, view deep Andean gorges and enjoy spectacular scenery.
Experience awe and reverence amidst the natural forms and human creations
of Machu Picchu. Following a tour with the guide who points out what we
know of the social structure and religious rites and economic practice
of the Inca empire, sit in silence, climb Huyna Picchu, or trek the Inca
trail. Marvel at the manner in which humankind organizes itself into communities
and seeks ways to respond to the Eternal trhough site selection, architectural
form, rite, and ceremony. BL Corihuasi
March 28~Cuso--Lima--Iquitos--Amazon
Take
lunch at Clinica Ana Stahl, cruise the Amazon, see the floating
houses of Belen, walk the rain forest, prepare for the traditional "Last
Night on the Amazaon Amateur Hour" featureing jokes and pantomimes.
Following a dinner by candlelight, bed down under a thatched roof to the
sounds of the rain forest. BLD Amazon Lodge
March 29~Iquitos--Lima
Explore life
on the Amazon. Discover exotic flora and fauna. Visit a family zoo. Tour
a family rum business. Trade with river people, take part in a blowgun
demonstration, cruise up-river, dine in Iquitos, fly to Lima. BLD
March 30~Lima--U.S.A.
Take home
new understandings of religion and culture, church and world, mission,
and development; "first world" and two-thirds world;" multi-nationals
and micro-enterprise, dependence and interdependence; friends and fun!
SB in flight
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