California Baptist University announced recently that a group of students majoring in biomedical science and environmental science traveled to Peru to learn about ecosystems. While on tour, they explored a variety of environments from busy city life to quiet mountainsides in the Peruvian Andes.
Students learned about the geology of the planet. They saw firsthand how the environment plays a role in the way of life of people who grow their own food to produce goods. The group also hiked Machu Picchu, a 15th-century Inca citadel built on a 7,970 ft mountain ridge. The river, which flows past the archeological site, has created a canyon with a tropical mountain climate.
The CBU Director of Conferences and Events, who accompanied students on the trip, said one highlight of visiting Peru was learning how Peruvians constructed buildings on the sides of mountains.
“Seeing how they built using the environment and drawing on all that useful space along the mountains was fascinating,” Corey Polk said. “The height and proximity of where they built were literally on the tops of mountains. A lot of ingenuity went into it.”
The students also visited Lima, Peru’s capital city, which is located in the valleys cut by two main rivers, and in the desert zone of the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Lima is home to more than 10 million people. The group toured the Peruvian Andes, fertile farmland, and the Pisac Archaeological Park. Watch the video here.
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