Though Eloi and I had already experienced a variety of conditions – blissful to miserable – since our departure from Catalunya, none of them would be as trying as our Ausangate Loop experience.
LIMA, Oct 26 (IPS) - The lack of water is so severe in Peru s highlands that farming families are forced to sell their livestock because they cannot feed them. "There is no grass or fodder to feed them," says Fermina Quispe, a Quechua farmer from a rural community located at 4,200 meters above sea level.
The lack of water is so severe in Peru's highlands that farming families are forced to sell their livestock because they cannot feed them. "There is no grass or fodder to feed them," says Fermina Quis
AREQUIPA, Peru Carmen Manchego looks down at the remnants of homes sticking out of the quagmire of mud that engulfed the Peruvian mining town of Pampaylima."I have nothing left, nothing at all," she moans.Torrential rain late last week in Mariano Valcarel district of the southwestern Arequipa region provoked a mudslide on the San Martin Mountain.Several communes were buried