The Road Less Traveled Andean… (trip)
The Road Less Traveled Andean Village Experience
- Volunteer Vacations
8 Days, from $1,250* per person. Year-round.
Accommodations: Comfort. Exertion level: 3 (7 is most strenuous)
Overview of The Road Less Traveled Andean Village Experience
If you are looking for a truly "off the beaten path" experience in a community with real need, then you've found it! Your volunteer program will take place in beautiful San Pedro de Casta, a secluded and traditional village located high in the Andes, about 4 hours outside of Lima. The people of San Pedro make their communal living by farming the terraced land of the surrounding mountains, as their ancestors did for thousands of years before them.
Operated by Globe Aware.
Locations visited/nearby
volunteer vacation, service vacation, voluntourism, earthwatch, global volunteers, red cross, habitat for humanity, building stoves, helping people, sustainability
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Max group size: 12
Special information
- Family oriented trip.
Itinerary
Volunteers work on a variety of community development projects, from building repair, establishing irrigation channels for the schools, reforestation, offering instruction in basic skills such as English, computers, hospitality, and first aid. Volunteers are also likely to build simple Lorena stoves (which greatly reduces fuel consumption and increases health of the home's inhabitants by reducing smoke), and other projects that arise. Work projects will be selected prior to your arrival based on immediate need in the community.
Projects vary depending on the number of volunteers, which projects were finished (or not) with the prior group, what priorities have changed, weather conditions, which supplies are available, and often the interest and fitness level of the volunteers. For these reasons, specific projects are often not fixed until the week prior to your arrival and can even change upon arrival.
Volunteers will stay in the central village lodge. Electricity and modern bathrooms with running (not hot) water will be available. Fresh Andean specialties with lots of fresh vegetables and beans from the surrounding hills will be served.
Many enriching activities will be offered throughout the week, these activities are planned, but optional. You may choose to take a horseback ride to the ruins at Marcahuasi, visit the cheese or hat maker, learn to cook an Andean specialty, visit the mummies at the local museum, make Hualquies alongside local women (special pouches for carrying coca leaves) or explore the town at your leisure. San Pedro de Casta is a small and quiet place, so be prepared that this village offers no bright lights or big city night life. Volunteers will feel they are living in the Peru from ages long past
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