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Arequipa Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Arequipa, Peru
Arequipa
... to our hostel, El Albergue Espanol. Then we set off for a wander and stopped in a nice cafe for a hot drink. Arequipa is Peru's second largest city and is pretty nice, known as the "white city" from the buildings constructed of sillar volcanic rock that ...
Arequipa
... Cathedral. The Cathedral has been built eight times and because of this is a mixture of eight different architectural styles. Arequipa is renowned for earthquakes (which explains why the Cathedral has been rebuilt so many times) and tremors are felt in ...
Canyons and Condor spotting
... approach to planning, we are back in the South after a 2000km detour and 24 hour ´planes, trains and automobile´ session. Arequipa City is a UNESCO World Heritage site in recognition of its architecture, much of which is built from volcanic sillar (a ...
To Arequipa and the Colca Canyon
Another day, another bus. This particular bus was headed to Arequipa – Peru's second city. To save on cash we travelled via the 'economic’ option. This meant that the vehicle stopped ALL the time to pick up and drop off local people and took ...
Arequipa
... live long in the memory and for those of you fortunate to hear it, you will not enjoy it! Anyway, we basically wandered round Arequipa, Adam having not eaten anything in two days and not about to try! We did stop for an amazing smoothie and quite frankly ...
No Sacrifice
... , but there was no KFC* around to let me fully enjoy their large succulent bodies. (* Kentucky Fried Condor...mmm..) Arequipa, depsite the occasional canyon related disappointment, has been a fine stop: enough crazy human behaviour left over to provide ...
Araquipa - backpacks are sitting front row
Hi from Arequipa! This morning we arrived from Nazca to Araquipa. After a "good" night sleep in the bus, our backpacks got to sit front row in the too small taxi.. Totally packed we arrived at our really lovely hotel Bothy. Hopefully we´re going to have ...
The deepest canyon in the world (well, almost...)
... pleasant. Many say it is the nicest town in Peru - and from the few i have seen, i certainly wouldn´t argue with that. Arequipa Backpackers was a nice hostel, offering pretty much the same deal as Caroline`s in Huaraz, but at twice the price. It was ...
Arequipa & Colca-Canon
Nach 18 Stunden Busfahrt (unsere längste Nachtfahrt bisher) erreichten wir Arequipa, die zweitgrößte Stadt Perus (850.000 Ew). Das bedeutete höhentechnisch wieder von 0 (Lima) auf 2.500m Meeresspiegel. Der erste Eindruck: (zu) viiiiiele Touristen in ...
Colca Canyon
... Colca Canyon which lies 160 km northwest of Arequipa. There were 8 of us in total including our guide, Roy. We met at the Arequipa bus terminal to commence the 6 hour bus trip to Cabanaconde where we began our hike. The group included myself, Mike from ...