Ambassador Urs promoted sports, healthy life and the use of the bycicle in Tarapoto

Ambassador Krishna Urs led a bicycle tour that covered almost 90 kilometers and included locations that are successful examples of alternative development in the San Martin Region. In the following images we can see the stops and visits he made as he passed through the “Ciudad de las Palmeras” (“City of Palm Trees”).

August 9

Embajador-Urs-ICT — Ambassador Urs about to extract cocoa beans at the Institute of Tropical Crops (ICT)

Embajador-Urs-COAR-Tarapoto — Ambassador Urs delivers to Brigadistas of the Regional Emergency Operations Center (COER) of Tarapoto emergency backpacks and sports shirts

Ambassador Urs visited the Orquídea chocolate factory where he learned how the chocolate manufacturing process is developed

During the afternoon of the first day of his tour, the Ambassador awarded the best artistic posters and preventive messages of the School Contest “Just say no” at the Tarapoto police station. It also inaugurated the Library of “El Cultural”, one of the Peruvian-American cultural centers that disseminates the teaching of the English language and cultural activities in partnership with the United States Embassy in Peru.