TREASURES OF THE ANDES 
Quaker Community Service Trip 
Bolivia - June 13-27, 2009
Optional Extensions include Machu Picchu
Info@treasuresoftheandes.com  707 823-6034

Spend a week in the beautiful Sorata Valley, working with villagers on life-changing projects of Quaker Bolivia Link www.qbl.org and the Bolivian Quaker Education Fund www.bqef.org
Then visit La Paz, the world's highest capital city, and talk with indigenous leaders who are working to end the social exclusion of the indigenous majority and relieve extreme rural poverty.
See pre-Inca Tiwanaku and stay at Lake Titikaka, hike to Inca ruins on the Island of the Sun.

Cost $900* plus airfare, includes ground transportation, meals and lodging in Sorata, all hotels with breakfasts.
          Discount for full-time students.
Optional extensions:
Tour Peru - Puno, Cusco, Machu Picchu- with a shaman guide. (Approximately $1000* additional cost)
Volunteer in Quaker schools in La Paz, Sorata or on the altiplano, with a family homestay at minimal cost.
Attend language school and stay with a family to advance your Spanish.
                                *Costs based on minimum group size of 10.

To register send $150 deposit to: Treasures of the Andes
     8290 Appian Way
     Sebastopol, CA 95472-2102

For more information and photos see description of the 2008 Quaker Study Tour. This Community Service Trip will be similar, but will focus on intensive participation in a work project in the Sorata area rather than the Study Tour's brief visits to 10 or more different project sites.

Click here for great photos by a former trip member.

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