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Foresta Hostal Arequipa

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Arequipa- New Year's Eve in the White City

A travel blog entry by eliswift4

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... and visited the cathedral, where we learned the fascinating/terrifying information about the earthquake damage and also got a chance to view many magnificent church jewels and robes, and an extremely large organ. Wow! Those archbishops sure had expensive tastes. After lunch we set our sights on doing some shopping. Luckily Jon was in the buying mood, so we were able to secure some goodies for our family members who will soon be visiting us ...

Tacna to Arequipa Welcome to Peru

A travel blog entry by maja.flower

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So good to finally get out of Chile. The northern part of Chile is mostly dssert for hundreds and hundreds of km and even the beach towns are desert towns which means no fresh or chemical free water and no fresh fruit and vegetables plus everything seems dirty and covered with dust. We stayed in Arica for a few days at went to the beach there which was OK except that because the desert backs on to Los Andes, ...

The town of Sillar!!

A travel blog entry by irishandmonkey

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... Region in southern Peru. Its population is 904,931 making it the 2nd most populated city of the country. Arequipa lies in the Andes Mountains, at an altitude of 2,335 meters (7,661 ft) above sea level; the former snow-capped volcano El Misti overlooks the city. The city has many colonial-era Spanish buildings built of sillar - a pearly white volcanic rock, from which it gets the nickname La Ciudad Blanca ("The White ...

Juanita

A travel blog entry by hannaha

... they could find what was underneath - not sure I´d want to be digging around on the top of a volcano when it´s spewing ash! Turns out archaeology is more like Indiana Jones than I had previously thought...

Our guide was very knowledgable and I felt that I learned a lot more about the Inca people, which was well-timed as we are about to go and see lots of Inca remains! ...

It WAS the Policeman's fault.

A travel blog entry by timbersfun

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... are then constructed on this, once again out of reeds. The people fish in the lake and barter for other items - and now we tourists make up most of their income.
Leaving Puno by boat, we travel up a reed lined channel before it opens into a bay of reed islands....This is (unfortunately) like a theme park....tourist boats sailing between the islands, ladies dressed in wonderfully coloured dresses beckoning us over to their islands.... large reed canoes, not too dissimilar to ...

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