Adult Travel Programs

PERU
Dates: TBA

Travel with Becket-Chimney Corners YMCA on our premier Adult Program to Peru and experience more than an average tourist trip. Revive old connections with camp alumni and families and forge new friendships with Peruvian YMCA community members. Led by three time TSP trip leader and New Zealand program partner, Lee Vaughan, participants will spend their days doing service work in the community and visiting Peru’s unique cultural sites. Visit a YMCA funded orphanage and get your hands dirty building a much needed medical facility in a Lima suburb. At night join a Peruvian cooking class, learn to salsa dance or enjoy a dinner out in Cuzco or Lima. Participants will come home with an increased sense of community among fellow travelers and our international partners as well as a greater understanding of the service work our teens complete each summer.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Build medical facilities in Independencia and visit a local orphanage
Take an excursion to Cuzco and Machu Picchu
Learn to salsa dance and take a cooking class at the Lima YMCA
Tour the historical centers of Cuzco and Lima

GENERAL ITINERARY

DATE	LOCATION	ACTIVITIES
August 19	Miami to Lima	Overnight flight
August 20	Lima	Rest, tour YMCA, Salsa and Meringue lesson
August 21	Lima	City Tour - downtown and Miraflores
August 22	Lima (Independencia)	Service Project
August 23	Lima (Independencia)	Service Project
August 24	Lima to Cuzco	Flight, free time in city, Folklore dinner theater
August 25	Cuzco	City Tour
August 26	Sacred Valley, Ollantaytambo	Tour
August 27	Machu Picchu, Cuzco	Tour, Train to Cuzco
August 28	Cuzco to Lima	Free day in Lima, Evening theater performance
August 29	Lima - Miami	Arcos Iris Orphanage visit, overnight flight to Miami
August 30	Miami	Arrive Miami, transfer to flight home

TRIP LEADER

Lee Vaughan served as the ICEP New Zealand Program Host from 2007-2009 and has since led three TSP programs for Becket-Chimney Corners YMCA most recently ICEP Vietnam in 2011. He currently works for the Berkshire Outdoor Center.