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- Nuevo Sol (PEN)
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Arequipa Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Arequipa, Peru
Strike!
... start the Inca Trail. This was getting a bit stressful. After sending a grovelling e'mail to Peru Treks explaining the situation, we organized to stay in Arequipa another night. We spent the day catching up on our blog. Around 6.30pm we ...
okay, so 19 hours later...
... to death, ate some suprisingly good food (its a bus station, c´mon), and finally it was time to start loading up for Arequipa. Nathan and I are both deathly afraid of getting stuck riding in the aisle for 10 hours (i´ve watched people do it, some of ...
A new home in Arequipa
... a new city, I ALWAYS ask myself whether I could live in that city for any extended period of time. When I landed in Arequipa, Peru's second largest city, on Saturday evening right after a most beautiful sunset, there was no doubt in my mind that living ...
Lima & Areqipa
... fly to Arequipa, it was double the price but so worth it (a bus trip would have been 16 hours and very windy). Arequipa, as much of Peru, is very dry and quite smoggy. The buses and old cars spew out black smoke unfortunately which makes it hard to ...
Arequipa
... ;Besteigung eines 6000er kamen. Diesen 3 Menschen verdanken wir es auch, dass wir unseren einzigen ganzen Tag in Arequipa verkatert verbracht haben, was durch das endlich wieder warme Wetter auch nicht besser wurde. Wir wissen zwar nicht waru, ...
Down, down into the canyon
... five hectare grounds in the middle of town are now prime tourist attractions. Unfortunately, as is the case with everything in Peru, Arequipa expects you to pay for absolutely everything you do. The traffic here is extraordinary. The rule seems to ...
CAÑON DEL COLCA
OLA! In smo sli... na treking v Colca Canyon. Odloceni smo bili, da bomo vsaj ta treking poskusili izpeljati sami, vendar so nas v eni od agencij seveda prepricali, da se nam splaca it z njimi. V soboto so nas pobrali v nasem hostlu ob 6h zjutraj, ...
larrivee de patafoin
ouf, lavion às cher est bien arrive sur arequipa avec le colis comme il etait prevu: un patafoin... je vais dc le recuperer, il est en pleine forme apres 35 heures de transport... et il est etonne du splendide soleil quil fait ici, et oui arequipa est ...
Arequipa
... holding crosses or biblical icons. The most fervent ones were walking barefoot as a sign of penitence. Even though most of Peru is very catholic, Arequipa seems to be the town with the most faith. Before we went to the restaurant for dinner we talked to ...
One day in Arequipa
... I did manage to watch a bit of the American Football on telly while Kate slept... Dallas won!!!!! Brilliant day in Arequipa, however Kate started to feel unwell that night, think she might have what I had early in the tour!!!! Blog you later!!! ...
Arequipa and the Colca Canyon
Ang and I arrived in Arequipa at 5:30am in the morning, we went straight to a hostel that someone had told us about and luckily they have early check in, so we were able to go straight to our bed. slept until 9am and then woke up, did a bit of laundry and ...
First Few Days in Arequipa
... TV (we have been able to watch the Republican Convention on CNN International). There is high speed WiFi throughout the school. Arequipa is typical of other lesser developed areas in the world where we have lived in the past. There is grittiness and ...
Any chance of an upgrade?
Just got into Arequipa which is a lovely old city where we have a 3 star hotel with hot water and internet, phone access so am happy.Oh I recently found a load of postcards I meant to post from Quito, so that´s why you haven't received any. My plan is to ...
Arequipa
... evening we took a taxi back to Ica where we had a night bus to Arequipa (click here to see Arequipa: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=arequipa,+peru&spn=0.037392,0.081539&t=k&hl=en) We arrived at 08.30 the next day and took a taxi to Marlon´s place - a ...
Waking up to action movies is no fun!
... was a market near the city square that sold alot of jewelry and alpaca products. We all then headed off to a traditional Arequipa reastaurant for lunch. They served things like stuffed chilies and avacodos, lots of seafood and guinea pig that had been ...
Colca Canyon... another trek!
COLCA CANYON: Yet another trek for me! This one was a three day trek down to the world's second deepest canyon and all the way back up! What a thrilling few days- great group of people and a spectacular guide... which can really make the difference ...
Back to Arequipa
... Picchu to allow our legs the chance to recover and we all got massages. As we have a few days to kill before we have to be in Lima, we decided to break up the trip back with a stop in Arequipa. We all loved the city and want to spend a bit more time ...
The deepest canyon in the world..
... Arequipa.. But once we were here! A really beautiful city - locals claim that when the moon left the earth, it left Arequipa (apparently implying it's beauty).. And they're not wrong.. One day was spent exploring the city, and its famous ...
A very busy week
... asleep so I interneted and faffed about until he felt ready to face the world. We took a walk around Arequipa which is the second biggest city in Peru after Lima and it was really nice. They have a gorgeous plaza in the centre of the town with ...
The novelty wears off...
Well, the novelty of being alone has well and truly worn off.... Arequipa, whilst a beautiful city to spend an afternoon, is not really equipped for entertaining a sickly, lonesome traveller such as myself. Such is my boredom that after aimlessly ...
Arequipa, preparatif au depart
Le matin, je passe deavnt un barbier, j'en profite pour me faire la barbe a l'ancienne, au blaireau et a la lame. Apres une session cyber, nous dejeunons dans un comedor chic puis je pars faire quelques courses avant le depart. L'apres midi, nous allons ...
The White City
... it used, maninly a white volanic rock mined nearby, which is why it has the nickname, the 'White City'. Arequipa is a place in Peru where the inhabitants are very proud of their town and are well renowned for their food. This city was a ...
Impresiones
Superschoene Bergstadt! Wie ein grosses Cajamarca! Bilder folgen hoffentlich bald! Sehr religioes auch! Tausend Kirchen und ein ...
Arequipa
We had a 'direct' bus from La Paz to Arequipa in Peru, which in fact involved making 4 changes. Got here at 8pm last night after eating bananas and twixes for breakfast/lunch and ordered a 46cm pizza each. That was wicked. Today we went in to Arequipa, ...
´My City, the White City`
... long, protest march. Flailing pickaxes and helmets, and sporting a fine collection of bright orange overalls, the miners of Arequipa certainly sounded aggrieved about something. Escorted around the square by armed police, the protest seemed peaceful but ...
Peru
... that they are a expression of Shamen dreams brought on by hallucinogenic drugs which made them believe they could fly. Arequipa Set in a valley surrounded by three huge volcanoes Arequipa´s building are made from white volcanic rock which makes ...
Welcome to Peru - civilisation again!!
... to Arequipa. Civilisation again!! Shops, resturants, bars, pavements, roads, churches, tourists.....we zoomed into the 21st Centuary. Arequipa, Peru's second most important city, stands at the foot of the snow-capped volcano El Misti, as well as ...
Arequipa, Peru
... somewhere around Sydney. Hence, we going overboard on this Pod with 7 photots and a video. The next stop was Arequipa. A beautiful Spanish Colonial Style Town surrounded by volcanoes. Misti Mountain looms over the town, and as we arrived late in ...
Arequipa and the Colca Canyon
... to use the hot springs (the Irish girls were doing a 2 day trek and instead just had to go staright back to Arequipa). Thankfully, things improved after this. After saying goodbye to the Irish girls, the rest of us headed to our hostel for the ...