Living in Peru : your everyday companion

IT IS TRUE MAGIC IS THERE. GOD, FRIENDS, PEOPLE,  FEELING IS IN THE
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Oh its It's amazing what an apple crumble can do for international relations.I feel more at home than I'd ever expected. Volunteering to make an English pudding for dinner once a week has, you might say, been an excellent sweetener.

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It looks like romancing is not looking at you yet.
Don't worry, enjoyed life and be happy.
Just remember you're on top of the world. Look around you and asked yourself what do you really want from life. Love is just around the corner. But the most important is to enjoyed life, people, the world, the kids, and others.
Have fun and meet people. Be yourself and be happy.
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Anybody hear anything when Spirit is going to fly into Chiclayo ?

The only thing I found was this on a google search..

Spirit Airlines to add 10 new Fort Lauderdale- Lima flights.
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1 May 2008 Spirit Airlines will be authorized to have 20 weekly flights Fort Lauderdale - Lima and ten Fort Lauderdale - Chiclayo (Lambayeque) flights..

For some reason I can't copy and paste the URL and the above into this thread ?

You can find the link to the above doing a google search for the following by searching - Spirit Airlines , chiclayo , Peru , May 1 2008 ..

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Congradulations to you. Sounds like you have come a long way in this life. Good for you. A person from your past. Sandy [REPLY]

I've flown between the US and Peru at least 30 times...American, LAN, and Spirit.  Spirit is usually half the price, plus they fly out of Fort Lauderdale which is a much easier airport, IMO, than Miami.  $400 round trip on Spirit versus $700 - $800 on the other guys makes it an easy choice. 

Spirit has always been on time, the flight attendants courteous, and their planes are all less than two years old.  The flight between Fort Lauderdale and Lima is usually smooth and on time (unlike LAN and American).  Never a luggage problem, either.  Give me a low price, and keep your TV, blanket and soft drink. 

Added bonus - when you wait at Jorge Chavez for the flight from Peru to Florida, you get to hear the Peruvian counter personnel say "Phart La-di-da" several times.  Classic.

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Just wanted to congratulate you for changing your mind and decided to go to Peru and help children in need. Helping is always rewarding and
I'm glad you enjoy your time there.
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Beatrice,
Yes, I have seen that in Cusco and the highlands.  There is a lot of poverty and the amount of street children in Cusco breaks my heart.  There have been many changes there since the first time we visited in 2000 so I think that the tourism dollars are helping somewhat to ease many people's burdens.  Or at least I hope so.  My husband and I have a godchild  (Pacha) in Cusco, in fact, my husband is there now.  It wasn't possible financially for me to go or I would be there too.  We have a small adventure tour company that does 1 - 2 trips per year.  We give back both to the local children and to the porters who work so hard on the Inca Trail.  We have seen that the porters usually don't have sleeping bags to sleep in during the trek and so we donate a good sleeping bag per customer to the porters.  We are in the process of trying to get our company designated as a non-profit company which will then donate the majority of the profits to help the peruvian people in the mountains.   We also support the HOPE foundation that helps with schools and education in the highland villages.  I know, that in the scheme of things, what we do isn't much but we try to do what we can.   I can only imagine that for the highland people especially, it is hard to truely love something (Peru) when you are just simply trying to survive the best you can.  We try to take groups up to one of the villages to buy the textiles directly so the artisans can get all the money rather than just some of it.  www.onemoon.us [REPLY]