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Lost Stolen & Found
So.... Arrived in Buenos Aires around 8pm Thursday 29th (a week ago!) and felt pretty lost. With no company and no real idea what I was doing in South America I wondered what the **** I was going to do here for the next month. Ella, Felicity and their parents were also in BA but in another suburb called Palermo which was my goal for the night.
I managed to get a taxi from the airport and the driver spoke NO english nada. So here I am nervous as **** trying ...
The White City
... occupies a city block and is a citadel within the city. An enclosed order the nuns lived behind high walls. The remaining nuns are secluded in a small portion of the monastery the rest is now open to the public. We went in the evening when the small plazas, narrow streets and nuns houses are lite by candlight and small fires, beautiful.
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ANOTHER DAY IN AREQUIPA
... badly by her parents, and taken away at age 2. Just clings to you and says thank you for anything you do. Including just coming to visit. There are so many of the older girls who were put on the streets by their parents as young as age 5, and are so severely damaged physically and emotionally. It is just tragic. They need so much. But they need love and guidance, and they need this home. Without money, this home ...
Amazing Arequipa
... to make its way onto the road - quite a strange sight really! As some of the group are not coping too well with the altitude we continue onto Chivay & head to a tourist buffet restaurant for lunch.
Arequipa is a lovely place, it is quite a big city it terms of size & economy. However it still retains all of its charm which Lima seems to have lost. We would defiantly spend more time in Arequipa - such beautiful architecture & the people are very ...
A Wheelie Long Bus Ride
... first class, overnight bus to Cusco (we decided to splurge)!
Cruz del Sur really have their act together. It was a pleasure going through their motions: exchanging a voucher for a ticket, checking our luggage in the terminal, having our luggage searched and being metal-detected (a couple of guys ahead of us actually had two pistols confiscated... comforting). The seats were huge, and very comfortable! We played Bingo (and ...