Actress and humanitarian Susan Sarandon hugs a llama pal for Heifer International (Can anyone resist a marketing campaign that features these photogenic Andean camelids?) This is a charity project I like. Actress Susan Sarandon is promoting an organization that battles world hunger by donating dairy cows and other farm animals to subsistence farmers. It’s a simple idea and one that [...]
Susan Saradon Hugs a Llama to Ease World Hunger
December 16th, 2008 · Comments Off · Animals in Peru, Money, Economics, Politics, Peru's Andes Mountains
Tags: Andes·Heifer International·hunger·llamas
Another Arequipa Wedding Guest
August 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Animals in Peru
Cute llama pix are a needed tonic to the barrage of awfulness in today’s world. A self-professed llama freak, from Eugene, Oregon, has asked for more camelids on this site. Of course, I oblige. Figure 1: Munching alpaca at Jose & Daniela’s wedding, photo c. Barbara Drake 2008
Arequipa Wedding Guest
April 21st, 2008 · 8 Comments · Animals in Peru
In March, El Fotografo, El Hijo and I went to a wedding in Arequipa, an old colonial city in southern Peru. The wedding reception was held at a sort of an ecological/conservation site, which included a mini farm with typical Peruvian animals: llamas, alpacas, sheep and a lone vicuna. There were about 250 people at the [...]