Getting to know Peru (and its monotone mandarin men).
Photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=25411&l=c4496&id=629670868 As April rolled to a close, I prepared to begin a new chapter of my trip, the longest one: one which I had expected to be the most valuable to me in the long term and the one which would give me the most insights and teach me the most lessons. After two and a half months of traveling continuously, spending no more than 7 nights in any city, I was to spend seven weeks in Trujillo, Peru participating in a volunteer program with Supporting Kids in Peru ( http://www.skipperu.org/ ) Leaving exciting Lima behind, I took a day bus up through the unspectacular Peruvian northern desert towards my new home. On the way the bus provided a game of bingo, the prize for winning which was a return ticket. I didn´t win. SKIP works in an outer district of Trujillo called El Porvenir, a desert settlement surrounded by rugged mountains that you can rarely see as it is mostly overcast. My first walk through it, and its ne...