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I am a 30 year old French woman. After studying biology in France, I decided to go to England to do a MSc in Ethnobotany. For my MSc fieldwork, I went for the first time to Peru and fall in love with the Andes that's why I finally lived and worked 4 years in the Central Jungle of Peru. I was first a volunteer promoting a better use of natural resources and then got a job as an environmental educator and communicator in a Peruvian NGO. I am currently beginning a PhD in anthropology at the University of Florida. So here begins a new adventure in the Gator Nation!
I always enjoyed travelling and I think I owe my parents this perpetual urge and pleasure I feel when I discover new settings and ways of life. My first big adventure abroad with them was to Algeria, a beautiful country where they had the opportunity to spend one year in the seventies. I was 11 years old. We camped out during a week and I discovered for the first time the Sahara. Then, at the age of 18, I began to travel by myself. I went to the Canary Islands and Bolivia in international work camps. These camps are designed so that young people from all over the world work together during a few weeks and help local people in social, arqueological or environmental projects. I had chosen this option to travel because I felt it was a good manner for a young person to contribute to the conservation of natural and cultural heritage and to interact with local people and other students from other countries than mine.
For the last four years, I had the opportunity to travel extensively in Peru and to get to know better highlands and lowlands.
I am very interested in developing in Peru a responsible tourism and giving travelers keys to understand Peru from inside and to establish relationships with local people based on comprehension and respect. Peru and its inhabitants have much to offer to people interested in discovering history, culture and nature. It is a very diverse country with many different ethnic groups with their own languages and customs. I think it takes time to be able to understand such diversity and I feel that as a Tripbod Person it is my responsibility to share with Tripbod users what I learnt and understood so that they go well prepared to the country, appreciate it more and have exchange of greater quality with local people. My responsibility is also towards local people, to make sure that they benefit from what visitors can bring to them. Unfortunately there are still many places in Peru where local people are not part of the "classic" touristic tours/packages proposed in their own town.