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Santa Marta Arequipa

Santa Marta 207 Arequipa, Peru

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Arequipa

A travel blog entry by hannaha

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Peru is already looking up on the vegetarian front - ate a broccoli curry concoction at a lovely veggie restaurant on first night in Arequipa (Mandala restaurant). Hostel is more like a posh hotel and made me mate de coca because they noticed me coughing in the reception! Kind of like green tea and believed to cure pretty much everything as far as …

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It's Not Always Sunshine and Sand Dunes

A travel blog entry by bengamble

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... they still light it up and a Latino Santa Clause was even there last night (4 days late, but whatever!)

Lastnight we had a bottle of wine on our hostel's rooftop patio then met 3 Brazilian girls who were looking for party companions. After downing most of a second bottle, Emily and I obliged. It cools way down here at night, actually just after noon it does. It goes from sweating hot to sweater, ...

Lima & Areqipa

A travel blog entry by janakaemma

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... where we saw wild rabbits, llamas, alpacas, vicuņas, guanacas and condor birds. We were really lucky to see the Condors, they have a wingspan of 3m and are very majestic soaring through the canyon.We went up to 4200m above sea level, where it looked a bit like Mars! The guide was really good, he told us about the villages and how they survived-mainly by agriculture as they grow potatoes and corn. People still use plough and bull to farm their land which ...

The town of Sillar!!

A travel blog entry by irishandmonkey

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... to other attractions we had been to it was. Apparently this price is set by UNESCO as it is a World Heritage Site. Wonder how much of that is seen by the locals??? When we got inside we were offered a guide (but that was an extra 10 Soles each). So all in all they would have got 90 Soles out of us!!! We managed on the information we were given and the information provided in the rooms thank you!!!

Definitely ...

Condors Ahoy!

A travel blog entry by jacqui-and-john

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... and one of the shanty towns to meet with some of the children who live there.

After that we had a slightly less intense afternoon eating ice cream and went to the cathedral, the highlight of which was posing for a bell ringing photo at the top of the tower and looking over the views of the surrounding volcanoes. In the evening we were served a most glutonous meal of ostrich carpachio and alpaca steak with cocktails served in a ostrich egg before ...

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