Peru: Sacred Valley Service & Education, 2026
June 28, 2026
Hola familias,
Our first day went great! We started the day off with a delicious buffet of fruits and breads, then got a bus to the airport. After arriving at the airport we proceeded to our plane which took us to Cusco. We took a bus to the majestic and beautiful city center “plaza de armas” to eat some traditional peruivian food which consisted of ‘causa’ which is a dish of mashed potato stuffed with avocado then we had our main courses of a variety of meats. After eating we walked around the plaza and exchanged our money for soles then headed back to the bus. Heading up to our next spot we took in the amazing views of Cusco and the mountains around. We later arrived at an alpaca farm where we got to pet and see llamas and alpacas. Later during our visit, we got to see the differences between real alpaca wool and synthetic ones and look around the shop at the farm. Once we finished looking around the shop, we passed through the farm once more and got to see a pen full of guinea pigs. We then got back on the bus and took a dark but scenic ride to the town of Calca and arrived at our hotel for the night. We ate dinner as a group then had our nightly meeting to discuss our plan for tomorrow. The groups highlights for the day were getting to pet the alpacas at the farm and our delicious lunch at the plaza. We had a great start to our trip and are looking forward to the rest of our trip!
By Struan and Rhett
June 29, 2026
Hola papis y mamis!💪🏾😉🥵 Today we woke up crack of dawn LOL. We tumbled out of bed and made our way down to our delicious breakfast where we filled our bellies 🫃🏾with delicious fruits, eggs, bread, and coca tea. After breakfast we got ready and played some icebreaker name games to get to know our group better. Shoutout Tejas dominated the game, he’s the GOAT. Our next activity was taking over the town of Calca and meeting lovely locals. We split into groups and had a variety of places to see and tasks to complete. We went to the local market and got exotic fruits to fill our bellies even more🫃🏾. After getting familiar with the town of Calca and meeting some of the host families, we stumbled into the BIG bus🤪. We traveled 🚀 into the town of Pisac and ate some salivating empanadas. The flavors melted on our tongues. Then we shopped with the host families until we all dropped. (LITERALLY 🤪). Then we transported back to the hotel 🛏️ where we all hung out and played silly goober games.
Despues, we walked 15 miles to dinner 😫😩 where we sang Tejas happy birthday🫡🤪. After we trekked back we all snuggled up on the couches and talked about our awesome day. We went over the plans for tomorrow. We are actually so beyond blessed and excited to serve the local communities tomorrow!! 🎶 Here we are writing this blog to you, we hope all your dreams come true, because we will forever love you🎶 We miss you guys so much but I’m sure we are having more fun then you😉 #strawberry #happybdaytejas #cannotwaitformybirthday GOODNIGHT signing out✌🏾
☮️- CARLA and OLIVE💕💕💖💖💕🥶🥶🥶
June 30, 2026
Hi all of the Families! We miss y’all so much! This morning we woke up too early and for breakfast we ate cereal, avocados and eggs and bread which was pretty yummy! After that we took our long bus ride into Kajllarakay where we did service including building water structures and there were a lot of animals there like sheep donkeys and a lot of stray dogs. we also had to carry heavy structures. After that we took a bus to Urubamba and had a very delicious and funny lunch with lots of funny jokes. After that we took the bus back to Calca and learned how to make these beautiful rings that we will get to keep and bring home. Some people bought some jewelry like rings or charms for necklaces from Mario and his wife. While that was going on everyone was showering, playing soccer, volleyball, ping ping against Tajas who is a master and no body could beat him. We also had a nice bonding chat under a gazebo where we got to know everyone better and bond. Then we all met up and walked to dinner at the same place from last night, and all of our host families joined us for dinner and we got to find out which amazing family we will be with. (Ps The guac was sooooo good). During this time we all played with the kids and communicated in Spanish with them. Then we walked back to the hotel and had our nightly meeting where our leaders Carla and Olive lead the meeting. And now we are writing this blog but trying to do it quick so we can go spend time with the rest of the group before our 10pm curfew!☺️ We hope you all enjoyed hearing about our day, it was so much fun and we are all looking forward to the homestays.
Ps from Ashley – hey Fam miss you guys, I’m having the best time and I don’t even miss my phone, haha. everyone is so nice and this experience has been so refreshing, the food is SO good and I’m going to be sad to come home 🙁 Tell skittles I say hi! Miss and love all of you guys make sure to tell the brothers I miss them too. #slay
Ps from Magnolia! I miss you guys so much I hope y’all are having such a fun time, I’m learning so much on this trip and trying really hard to learn Spanish haha but I’m so excited to call y’all and I want y’all to know that I’m doing great and not having a phone is so fun, other than the fact that I can’t text you guys. Anyways I love you mom and and pais!! ❤️❤️❤️💕💕
-Ashley & Magnolia
