Long Time No Blog
Sorry that its been a few days since we´ve placed any entries online, but we´ve been up in Cusco and internet access has been a lot more limited than it was down at Steve and Rachel´s in Arequipa.
We´re having a brilliant time, and are looking forward to sharing our photos from yesterday´s trip to Macchu Picchu, which was indescribably brilliant.
Our hotel is a really beautiful place with a great story to tell. It was set up by a Dutch lady named Yolanda Van Den Berg, who wanted to help the street children of this great city. She initially took in twelve boys, gave them a home, an education and a loving family environment. She set up the hotels to fund her work with the children, and this has proven to be a very successful venture - with a second hotel and a couple of children´s restaurants now in operation in Cusco. To find out more about the project and see where we are staying it is worthwhile visiting www.ninoshotel.com
The hotel is a little oasis in the madness of Cusco city. The Plaza de Armas is beautiful, with its red stone construction still glowing with a measure of Spanish colonial pride, but there is a high concentration of street traders in the centre of town - who understandably hope to make some money from the passing tourists on their way to Macchu Picchu. It can be a tiring experience repeating the words ´No gracias´ in a mantra-like fashion so as not to purchase numerous paintings and alpaca goods. This is, however, a low level problem and we´re really enjoying soaking up the beauty of the city.
Today we are looking forward to resting and getting a good bit of reading done. We fly back to Arequipa tomorrow, and then take a bus to Tacna on Thursday. We´re really looking forward to seeing John and Lourdes, and the believers in Pijchay. This will mark the beginning of a busy period of ministry, but it feels like such a privilege to have the prospect of ministering to our brothers and sisters here over the next while.
Thank you for all of your comments, prayers, and best wishes. Hopefully tomorrow night we´ll be able to post some photos of our adventures over the past couple of days.
We´re having a brilliant time, and are looking forward to sharing our photos from yesterday´s trip to Macchu Picchu, which was indescribably brilliant.
Our hotel is a really beautiful place with a great story to tell. It was set up by a Dutch lady named Yolanda Van Den Berg, who wanted to help the street children of this great city. She initially took in twelve boys, gave them a home, an education and a loving family environment. She set up the hotels to fund her work with the children, and this has proven to be a very successful venture - with a second hotel and a couple of children´s restaurants now in operation in Cusco. To find out more about the project and see where we are staying it is worthwhile visiting www.ninoshotel.com
The hotel is a little oasis in the madness of Cusco city. The Plaza de Armas is beautiful, with its red stone construction still glowing with a measure of Spanish colonial pride, but there is a high concentration of street traders in the centre of town - who understandably hope to make some money from the passing tourists on their way to Macchu Picchu. It can be a tiring experience repeating the words ´No gracias´ in a mantra-like fashion so as not to purchase numerous paintings and alpaca goods. This is, however, a low level problem and we´re really enjoying soaking up the beauty of the city.
Today we are looking forward to resting and getting a good bit of reading done. We fly back to Arequipa tomorrow, and then take a bus to Tacna on Thursday. We´re really looking forward to seeing John and Lourdes, and the believers in Pijchay. This will mark the beginning of a busy period of ministry, but it feels like such a privilege to have the prospect of ministering to our brothers and sisters here over the next while.
Thank you for all of your comments, prayers, and best wishes. Hopefully tomorrow night we´ll be able to post some photos of our adventures over the past couple of days.
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