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The history of our Casa Jaimes from the year 1982:
It was in the year 1982 when Huaraz was a little town, where hardly you could find 5 or 6 hotels. In July, month of ‘Fiesta Nacional’ and anniversary of foundation of Huaraz, always arrive a lot of foreign and national tourists to Huaraz. In this month, Huaraz is short of accomodations.
In this circumstances two Israelis knocked on my door. two very young boys with enormous backpacks asking for a place to sleep in the garden of my house.
With big emotion I invited them to enter into my house and I received them as my own children: I could not allow that the two boys from so far away slept in the open air of my garden, it would have been a pain for me, so we prepared them a room and hot shower and invited them to join us with the familiar dinner.
The two Israelis joined us nearly for one week. We had a very nice time together with games and a lot of happiness.
I was astonished to see them preparing their own breakfast, meal and dinner. Their soups were very different from ours and their customs too. In the afternoon we played casino and in the evening we sang and played guitar. After that they went to the disco to enjoy themselves just like all young people do. In the morning I opened them
the door as they were my own children.
Finally it was time for them to leave and they asked me what they had to pay for room and food. I told them I had no intention to take money from them, it had been such a nice experience spend our time together with young people from so far away. In the end they gave us chocolates, sweets, little souvenirs from their country and a bunch
of flowers as presents. Finally we said goodby like a mother says goodby to their sons. They promised that they would send their friends also to my house.
Some days afterwards very early in the morning somebody was knocking on my door. It was a group young Israelis with huge backbags. Smiling they asked ‘es la casa de Jaimes ?’ ‘claro que si’ I said to them and invited them to enter in my house. They were 5 very noisy youngsters so they woke up all of us. We all got up from our beds in
order to receive them and, of course, they needed an accomodation and wanted to stay with us even if we were not prepared to receive a group of this size. However in the end we managed to receive all of them.
The most important thing was that they felt well and we as well. Again my house was fullfilled with happiness, we listened to a very different language. All of us enjoyed it very much and again our guests began to prepare their own food, using what they bought on the lokal market. We always divided what they prepared and what we were
used to prepare every day.
Like this more and more young Israelis arrived, and it became necessary to get ready two more rooms in our court in order to receive them all.
Remembering these marvellous ‘eighties’ I can say that we always went to a restaurant when they wanted it and they invited us maybe because of our kindness. To be with them was nearly to be with a big family.
In the course of the years arrived more and more young boys and girls, all of them very happy and amusing.
We have a lot of indelible memories beginning with the year 1982 when for the first time two young Israelies named Moshe Mena and Eitan joined us, memories which are only ours. So many Israelies had to leave us and now they are for sure persons with their own families. Wherever they are in this moment, we hope they remember us similarly
as we remember them. We know they won’t come back but maybe their children will join us and we will receive them in the way we received their parents. Don’t doubt!!, they will always be welcome and my house will be as it was their house.
Today I have to say that a lot of other houses appeared in Huaraz which give accomodation to tourists. Some of them engage people who, waiting in the bus station for tourists, tell stories introducing themselves as ‘Casa Jaimes’ and taking them to other houses which are not ‘Casa Jaimes’.
Therefore we are installing this web side telling our story and showing fotos of our dear Casa Jaimes and its facade in order to enable you to recognize it when you are in Huaraz.
We are dividing our house and our happiness with you for 22 years now. In this period we have made all of our efforts to improve our service and install a lot of new details.
Carefully
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