Home Sweet Home Ollantaytambo

I only got to spend one day in the actual city of Arequipa, but what little I saw was nonetheless worth seeing. I stayed at "Home Sweet Home," a friendly place though a bit far from the central plaza. My first stop was the Museo Santury, where they have a fascinating exhibit on "Juanita the ice princess." Juanita was an Incan girl, most likely of high social status, who was offered by the Incas as a human sacrifice to the mountain gods. Researchers found her extremely well preserved body not ...

An overnight bus to ´the white city´ got me, J and two other girls to a lovely little hostel with a pancake and eggs breakfast. Hell yes. If you´re ever in Arequipa, ´Home Sweet Home´ is highly recommended. The city is less touristy than Cusco, and also feels more developed and businesslike. No traditional folk costumes here, or babies in back-shawls. It feels more solid, more elegant, and a little more sure of itself. People don´t mob you in the street to sell you Alpaca wool. The kind of ci...

So i might be writing a little too often, but i missed the bus to the hot springs in Chipay, due to the fact that i couldn´t find my hostel! Considering it was called a restaurant and i didn´t even know the name of that you can hardly blame me! So I´m here to kill two hours before the traditional dancing show. I chose my own adventure and caught an overnight bus to Araquipa, the second largest city in Peru, which is the gateway to the deepest canyon in the world (recently measured in 2005... ...

If I had access to a computer or phone on the first ¨real¨ day of the hike, I would have begged and pleaded everyone to pool their money to rent a helicopter to get me out the pure hell that I was in. But I´m here typing in the Varig lounge in the Lima airport, so I´m obviously alive. I´m waiting for my flight to Rio, so I´ll see how much I can get in. Wednesday morning we left Cuzco City, which used to be the capital city of the Inca Empire, through the sacred valley following a path of Inca...

Monday - Alicia and I were set the task of getting tonight's tickets to Arequipa - so naturally we got the cheapest. ´Ecobus´ was aptly named when we arrived with barely a second to spare at the battered looking bus and no conductor in site, we were certainly riding with the ´gente´ but i still say it was 100% better than the so called quality one we arrived on! Before the joys of the bus we dragged Dave out of the hostel to explore the parts of Cuzco we had missed. The delightful San Blas re...

Commos Dias Dudes. Well I´m in the city of Arequippa, down in the south of Peru, and I´ve got to say, it´d probably give Cusco a real run for its money in terms of overall interest, and activity. A real gem of a place. Today, I went white water rafting on the Rio Chili, and thankfully it wasn´t that chilly. It´s only about 45mins out of the city. It was an afternoon trip, we left at 1 and were back at 4.30 with just over an hour riding the waves, mainly class 2s and 3s with one class 4 rapid....