A Guelph family stranded in Peru is still waiting for word on when they will be able to get a flight home to Canada.
"It's a living nightmare," said Jake Beitz, who travelled to Peru on March 13 with his wife Raquel, children Victoria and Bianca and Raquel's mother Fatima.
"We are at a hotel in Lima all cooped up. We are very stressed, have lots of anxiety and want to get home soon," Jake said in an email.
"Our girls 8 and 11 want to get home as well. It's taking is mental toll on us with five of us being cooped up and with curfews. Kids are not allowed outside so we are basically stuck in the hotel."
Beitz said that only one person is allowed to go out to pick up food in the daytime and food options "are not that great here, so we are not eating the best."
"The food here is also giving us stomach issues," he said.
Beitz has been told the Canadian government is arranging three flights "soon."
"I'm hoping we get news on flights in the next day or so," he said.
"We have registered with the Canadian government saying we want a ticket home. I hope they share details with us soon and we get a flight. We are waiting and hoping," he said.
The family were visiting the country to see Machu Picchu, and also meet some of Raquel's family — her dad was born there.
"We do a lot of walking in the hotel room, play card games with the kids like Go Fish and House. Other than that there isn't much to do. We don't watch the TV because most channels are in Spanish and we find there are lots of news shows and watching those just gets us more stressed and a anxious," Beitz said.
