Friday June 20, 2009
Yesterday´s afternoon we left Junin and headed south by a 2.5-hour car ride through beautiful mountain vistas to Huancavelica, the capital city of the Huancavelica region. Today we played tourist and took a good stroll around the main district of the city in the morning and watched a cultural dance contest among the universities in the region in the afternoon. Brian received quite a number of offers from local beauties for photo opportunities.
At 6 pm, Man, Brian, and Lida took a bus that traveled for 10 hours through rocky roads atop the Andes that were carved out of the mountain just wide enough for the bus to make hair-raising turns with just inches to spare against the cragged rocks on one side and the cliff on the other. We arrived in Ica, a city southwest of Huancavelica on the other side of the Andes, at 5 am the following morning to meet up with our group deployed in the Huancavelica region whose members have come to Ica to spend the weekend.
Enroute from Juancayo (Junin) to Huancavelica
Waking up Friday morning, June 20, to a view of the foothills from the window of our hotel room
Meeting up with Juan Lizana Palomino, Education Specialist with the Huancavelica regional UGEL office
Running into a street parade
At the city arena where a cultural dance contest among the region´s universities was in full swing and full color
