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Arequipa Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Arequipa, Peru
Back to Arequipa
This is a top pick! ... what I love to do. We drove for 6 hours back to Arequipa. A long, hard day, it is good to be back in Arequipa. Last night, a HUGE surprise... Gabrielle was at the exact same hotel as me in the Colca Canyon. Unfortunately, I had to leave so didn´t ...
Arequipa - Day 108-109
This is a top pick! ... for a great panoramic view of the city and the majestic conical volcanoes which surround the city. The landscape around Arequipa is truly breathtaking. I can totally understand why the Inca's thought this place was sacred and deserved worshiping, even ...
Home Sweet Home ..... sort of
This is a top pick! ... shelves are full of everything that you're not looking for, and NOTHING is ever on time. In fact Peru's government has recently begun a cultural quest to change the country's endearing attitude toward their constant lateness... which all ...
Arrequipa
This is a top pick! Monday April 25th 2005 Paid a proper price for the bus to Arrequipá - 15 Soles, and again go through the desolate streets of Juliaca, though at the same time realising Id left my batterys, charger and sunscreeen in our hotel. Returned to the same ...
The white city!
This is a top pick! ... of the tour the girl took us on the roof of the church to see the stunning views of the surrounding volcanoes and Arequipa town. Lowlights Disgusting dinner Sometimes having the cheaper set menu pays off and you get delicious soup, maybe a salad, a main ...
Delhi Belly? What about Jelly Belly?
This is a top pick! ... ), so pointing at the book we recalled where we were staying and the taxi driver took us straight there. We have come to Arequipa, partly because it is apparently one of the most beautiful cities in South America (Peru’s second city) but mostly to ...
Family Atmosphere
This is a top pick! ... . We had our own room with a view of the mountains, Chachani and Pichu Pichu the extinct volcano El Misti that surround Arequipa. One of the fantastic things about being in a family residence was that we could get our clothes washed! It was fantastic ...
Long Distance Travel
This is a top pick! ... written anywhere that says I will never come back and see them again. Sometimes things just dont happen. Well, now I am in Arequipa, another night bus later, although this was real luxury class, we basically had beds! I still didnt sleep a whole ...
Fun and celebrations in Arequipa!
This is a top pick! ... bus travel. Fortunately half a sleeping tablet goes a long way and we sleep pretty well these days. A necessary evil I think. Arrived in Arequipa at about 6am and found out about a cheapish hotel ´Hostal Santa Luisa´ at the terminal for 35 soles inc ...
Coca Leaves, Colca Canyon and Condors
This is a top pick! ... of my trip so far. I am now in Cusco and ready to see the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu. I spend three days in Arequipa. After an 8 hour over night bus journey from Nazca the first day I wondered around this colonial town and visiting some of the ...
Arequipa and Colca Canyon
This is a top pick! ... we hung around Cusco for a day or two resting our feet and doing very little before catching an overnight bus to Arequipa. Arequipa is debatably Peru's second city (Trujillo in the north also makes the claim) and is known as the white city because all the ...
Convent, Colca Canyon and Condors
This is a top pick! ... one of our prized tubes of Burt's Bees lip balm were left behind as party favors... Bound to happen eventually... We enjoyed Arequipa a lot, though we were feeling a little lazy and spent a fair amount of time there just walking around and regrouping. ...
Lima, Huacachina, Nazca, Arequipa
This is a top pick! ... Andalucia in Spain. The Convent was definitely our highlight here, with it's tiny squares, narrow passages, and quaint colonial architecture. Arequipa is where we will say good bye to mild nights and low altitude living for several weeks, as we next ...
Condors spotting.
This is a top pick! ... . OMG, what an impressive sight. Plus, some pictures from the increadibly girly monastery in St. Cathalina in Arequipa. *** WORLD CHANGE STARTS WITH EDUCATED CHILDREN! Give a girl the life long gift of education! Support my ...
Peru, so far
This is a top pick! ... have seen a whole lot of desert in South America, and most of the Africa we saw was beautiful and green. That said, Arequipa is the nicest city I think we have visited yet. Fantastic restaurants (that our waists and our budgets wish we were avoiding) ...
Pretty Arequipa
This is a top pick! ... 10 From Puno we left the lake area and traveled north west through Juliaca to get to our end destination for the day, Arequipa. It rained intermittently but we had a great ride through the mountains, slowly reducing in altitude, which made us all happy. ...
Encounters with a shamen
This is a top pick! ... the afternoon we just wandered around and had a most glorious piece of chocolate cake in one of the 'Chocolaterias' that are dotted around Arequipa. 6pm came round at we met Raul and he took us back to his abode tucked in down some little side street. ...
Memories of Arequipa
This is a top pick! ... We were not at all surprised when the rain started, as if to gently wash away our tears. Twenty five years ago Arequipa presented a decidedly quiet and genteel demeanour, but today this reserve has been superseded by the nervous energy and activity of ...
Condors and Colca
This is a top pick! ... . So armed with some food, warm clothing and books we settled down into our 'beds'. The bus only travels overnight because Arequipa bus terminal is regarded as unsafe during the night – nobody is allowed in to collect arriving passengers until 0600. ...
Santa Catalina
This is a top pick! ... of sillar in the middle of a grand city. Sillar is a porous stone made from volcanic rock and it covers old town Arequipa, making it look like a glowing white city. Sort of. I think it mostly just looks like a city. But there is a ...
Leaving Arequipa
This is a top pick! ... , but also happens to be located in an earthquake prone area has now been my home for the last 4 months. They say Arequipa experiences tremors nearly everyday and the fact the last serious earthquake which reached 6.9 on the richter scale a couple years ...
The Land That The Moon Left Behind!!!
This is a top pick! Hi all, After a very bumpy overnight coach journey from Huacachina we arrived in Arequipa. Arequipa is the second largest city in Peru and lies in the Andes mountains, at an altitude of 2,380 meters (7,800 feet) above sea level; the snow-capped volcano El ...
Overnight Bus Nazca to Arequipa
This is a top pick! ... so negative that I´m considering bypassing a two day trip to the Colca Canyon with the group and staying those extra two nights in Arequipa... but yet to decide. I don´t really want to miss out on anything, but at the same time, I´m craving my space ...
Tomlinsons Reunited
This is a top pick! Blurb & Video to follow, when we return to Blighty and proper ...
Historical Feminism in Peru
This is a top pick! ... this may or may not have been a step forward for Peruvian women. Within a few years the Spanish had constructed a nunnery in Arequipa that covered two square blocks. Girls were dropped off at age 12 and would likely not depart the nunnery for the rest ...
Another World
This is a top pick! ... , riding the thermals all the way to dead dog dinner. Spent the last couple of days back in the heat, near the coast of Peru, in the desert. Ica, it could've been the Middle East. Huge steep dunes, surrounding an oasis town. Beach buggying and ...
Colca Canyon
This is a top pick! ... I felt after my 3 hour hike up the mountain! We had the best tasting breakfast ever that morning!! On the way back to Arequipa we stopped at fantastic hot springs heated by volcanic activity to soothe our aching legs.... surely Machu Pichu couldn´t be as ...
Arequipa
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Arequipa in our entry from Lima, Peru entitled 'Darkest Peru'. Cheers, K & ...