Why we visited the “X-SIL base”   We had the privilege of travelling to Peru in September 2015. I wanted to show my wife some of the parts of Peru that has meant a lot to me as I did spend 14 years of my childhood and youth in the jungles of Peru. Three of them were at Yarinacocha. I know this place has meant a lot to many good people out there. Thus, to share some of the pictures, and my impressions I ended up making this web page. Hope you get a little more up to date about X- SIL base status and that you also can relish some of your own fond memories of the place.  Maybe you even muster the courage, the money and the time to go and see Yarina for your self!

X-SIL base today, as of September 2015.   The base as we knew it in the seventies and eighties is now divided in two parts by a rather large and elaborate brick wall!  The wall basically runs from the lake side and inwards to the main road.  So now one part is in the direction of the FAP and Callao (east), and the other part is in the direction of the hangar (west). The area around the clinic is on the “FAP” side.  That said, I am not implying that it belongs to FAP, becouse the truth is I have no idea who owns that property now, and what it is used for.  But on the other hand I do know what the “west side” is used for. It belongs to UNIA = Universidad Nacional Intercultural de la Amazonia.  .

UNIA      http://www.unia.edu.pe   I was very glad to see that much of the property that composed the SIL base is now used in a beneficial way for Peruvians of all indigenous groups. That is fantastic! Education and enlightenment is the key for real progress of a country, and of every indigenous group.  I was told that over a thousand students are enrolled in the university. Many of them come from all over Peru.  The facilities of the base west of the wall, (what is left of the old buildings), and the new ones, are used by UNIA university and as campus for indigenous students that come from far away. I am not going to present UNIA more that this, because I do know to little, and because they do have their own website that you can look at your self.