The Casablanca Hostal Arequipa

... qui est a 4000 et des brouettes!!!
ns ns equipons au sommet, il fait bon meme a cette altitude, et cest parti!!! Jin en tete suivi de tres loin par moi, salomon et enfin le 4x4
cest assez caillouteux et les poignets en prennent un coup, les doigts sont super crispes.... on a aussi des parties de sable et la cest raimt la galere surtout qd cest plat et encore pire qd ca monte!!! a la descente cest trop drole, tu glisses dans ts les ...

... done a lot of work in those books and said their teachers were very happy with the work they were doing.

We also went to another girl’s house who is receiving support from the program. Her madrina made specific rules that she had to attend certain monthly meetings to continue to receive support and the girl, over the course of the last six months has yet to attend one. She is on the verge of getting kicked out of the ...

... you look at it, to me, Arequipa was no Cuzco, no Quito, and no Cuenca, and I only stayed for a day.

But it was a busy day. Drop the laundry off in the morning (I've gotten far too lazy to do it by hand) and hit up a travel agent to organize the remainder of my trip. I had thought to go white-water rafting on the nearby Rio Chili, but all the work for only half an hour on the river didn't seem worth it. Instead, I just bought a bus ticket out of town. Pack up the ...

... It wasn’t too long before we found a winner. Double room, wifi, hot-water, great kitchen, tv with cable and a 2 minute walk from the central plaza costing a mere s/50 per night, yet another Peruvian bargain!
We initially checked in for 2 nights, always a safe bet, in case you don’t like the place or something! The rest of the first day was devoted to wandering the streets and seeing what the city had to offer. Arequipa is much like Cusco though it doesn’t have ...

... hvor hun saa blev bedoevet med majsoel og lidt andet krudt, hvorefter en praest gav hende en mangesiddet hammer lige i hovedet, og saa blev hun jo saa lagt i en grav paa kanten af vulkankrateret. Paa grund af is og kulde er hun utroligt velbevaret i dag, men dog ikke saa smuk laengere, naermere en anelse gusten. Efter saadan en oplevelse er der vel ikke noget mere naerliggende end at gaa i kloster. Saa det gjorde vi i Santa Catalina, som er et ...

... The reception lady was really nice, and even booked my bus ticket to Cusco leaving Saturday night and my Colca Canyon tour for Friday/Saturday...

Arequipa is the second largest city in Peru and is known as the ciudad blanca (the white city) because of the white volcanic rock sillar used in the construction of many of the city's colonial buildings...

I figured that the Plaza de Armas would be as good a ...

... down after that and came back with a headache (smelly) so I decided to it wasn't for me.

Once in Arequipa, we got a cab and went to the hostel we had picked out- hoping they had a room for us. Yep, they did and got a fairly nice one too.

Arequipa is a great city with lots of history. It has beautiful colonial buildings with massive snow capped volcanoes in the backdrop, and lots of nice plazas (parks), etc. We mainly needed to stay ...

... the way to the mirador, on Puento Grau (bridge), another funny and strange thing happened. A homeless guy sneakily from behind, tried to grab my bottle of water. “Oi!” i shouted. Now normally I would just give the bottle of water away – but seeing how he had tried to grab my bottle, my first instinct was to not let this one go. So there we were – me and this strange guy - having this tug of war with my bottle of water in the middle ...