As of Today!:
-The tickets to Cusco (Peru) are purchased (through a travel agent) (~$2100.00 CAN). The flights are through Air Canada and LAN (I think... Daniel has the tickets at his house for now)
-Travel insurance is purchased (via WorldNomads) - ($122.66 CAN)
-The registration fee (but not the program fee) for volunteering with IVHQ (International Volunteer Headquarters) is purchased ($243.53 CAN).
-Overnight trip to Machu Picchu (Vistadome package via Maximo Nivel's PATAS organization) is covered ($611.51 {$305.76 each CAN)
-SOME vaccinations (we haven't got Yellow Fever immunizations yet) are purchased and floating around in my blood stream.......... (Hep A/B {Twinrix}, Typhoid) (~$124.00 CAN)
I'm/we're trying to figure out what other tour(s) we're going to have time for during our trip. We are scheduled to volunteer from July 30, 2012 - Aug 10th but we're leaving to head down on July 27th, and come back August 15/16th. PATAS (The Peruvian Association for Travel and Adventure Services) is the only company we've been in serious conversations with about the tours.
*We still need Yellow Fever vaccines (~$127.00 CAN)
*We need to pay the program fee (one week of construction/renovation and one week of working with {hopefully} street kids - (US$470 + 5% currency conversion and transaction fee - 493.50 US)
*We need to get prophylactic medications from our doctors to bring with to prevent any bad things from going down as best we can (acetazolamide for altitude sickness since Cusco is around 3500m above sea level and Newfoundland is basically ON the ocean!; antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals, possibly anti-travelers diarrhea). The water is supposed to be unfit to drink, especially with the Leptospirosis outbreak due to a flood up north which is a sickness carried through water contaminated with infected animal urine... so I don't know how that's going to go yet.
*Loperamide (Imodium), gravol, benadryl, 40% non-aerosol DEET, fenofexadine (day time allergy medication), unscented baby wipes in case there's no toilet paper or showers, unscented deodorant (does that even exist?), more wool socks, super cheap light colored longsleeve shirts and light pants.... I'm sure there's more I haven't yet thought of...
*I need to get copies of every bit of paper work we've ever seen (and some that we haven't yet) and give them to my mom. Passport and license, provincial/national health cards, insurance, plane tickets, immunization records, that police check I needed for my work term, the program information including contact numbers/addresses and receipts..... etc?)
Hopefully everything goes perfectly either way!!!
I guess we'll see...
