Hostal El Molino Arequipa
Av.Daniel Alcides Carrion 269 La pampilla Distrito Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero Arequipa Arequipa, Peru
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The 'Monasterio De Santa Catalina', a city within a city, was founded in 1579 by a rich widow who choose her nuns from only the best Spanish families.
Traditionally , going into a nunnery meant living a chaste life of poverty. However, in this privileged convent, nuns had servants or even slaves ...
The town of Sillar!!
... hair, teeth and features (although her face is dehydrated after she spent 2 or 3 weeks exposed to the sun before discovery as she had rolled down the crater from her grave). When she was found she was carried back on foot on the back as not to be disturbed. In the museum we saw the clothes she was wearing, the pins holding them together and the blood stains from her cause of death - She died as a result of a blow to the ...
Arequipa & Colca Canyon
... It was starting to get chilly so we decided to start walking back hoping to flag down the bus when it passed. Well it never came! Very few vehicles passed us and we tried to hitch but they kept driving on. Eventually some nice French tourists who had hired their own mini-van stopped to pick us up and took us back to Cabanaconde. Karin had to give each of them a kiss on the cheek as payment ha ha!
We decided that evening over hot piscos (like hot toddy’s except with ...
5. Following the Incas
Hola amigos,
We are still going strong in South America having now been on the La Paz, Bolivia, to Lima, Peru, tour with an English group for two weeks. We met the thirteen strong group at a hotel in La Paz before heading into Peru at stupid o'clock the following morning. We left early as we wouldn’t be able to get out of La Paz at a decent hour as there had been strikes and road blockages as some police, in a village miles away, had battered some locals ...
Friday night, the feeling's right!
... still had to stick around for the day. We were mainly hungover so didn’t get up too much, though did go for a haircut which turned out to be some great banter with the lady there. We tried to explain we’d been out and were hanging. She loved it, and us it seemed, getting some female customer to get a picture of us all; the hairdresser and ‘two beautiful boys’. Classic. ...


