Casa Andina Arequipa

... br>Today is a government holiday and many businesses are closed. The streets are mostly empty of taxis and noisy buses but I think most Arequipenas will head to the plaza de armas for the evening. Yesterday, there was a small religious procession through the plaza in honor of the mes de senor de milagros. Women were dressed in black and children played the drums while everyone chanted and carried two very large ...

... vol a venir...
atterissage reussi, et les bagages sont tous la !
ben ca y est c fini, snif...alors voila peps, maintenant on te souhaite de profiter a toi toute seule de ces paysages wonderful, de ces gens amazing, et de tellement encore dautres choses...pour nous, la reprise va etre dure....
prends soin de toi, et donne nous envie !!!
ju, jerem et sev

ben voila, nos histoires se separent, c pour ca que je prends le relai.... pour moi ce nest pas lattente ...

... green. In the evening we went out to a nice restaurant called Wayrana where we both had steak which was perfectly tender and the grown ups had pasta and the local river-shrimp stew.

Then on Monday we took the bus to Puno (bit of a marathon) but we got there in the end and then went out for pizza.

Missing you all at home - not long to go. Lots of love and hugs to everybody xxx

... vegetables and/or meat. Then after the meal we get tea -- standard, coca leaf -- which is the natural form of man-made Cocaine -- or other local plants. As I mentioned to a few people on our trip when filling the somewhat obligatory forms that its my b-day today as they always ask for name, nationality, age, and profession as well as sometimes birthday, passport #,and martial status. I ...

... a hostel... we show up and it turns out the only hostel in town is not serving dinner that night or breakfast the following morning.. why? Because the mother is the cook and she´s gone into town for a couple of days.... of course. So we start off again, off to the next town/group of hostels another hour away! Turns out this was probably the wisest option anyway, finding ourselves some dinner and beds for the night in a place named Oasis, complete with swimming pool (but too ...

... the last to eat. So I ate almost the whole platter full! Twice in restaurants I´ve asked for an avocado pizza. They look at me strangely since it isn't on the menu, but they make it. Yummy. Today we are going to Arequipa or something like that. It is a five hour bus trip so George booked us on the double decker luxury one.

... in a glass refrigerator-like case. The case is preserved at a consistent cold temperature so that the mummy could be well preserved. Unfortunately, we couldn’t take photos, but I was fascinated by how so well preserved she was – she still has her dark hair and clothes in perfect condition as she must have been wearing them when she had died. I found it very fascinating – even though I still find the whole concept of human sacrifice disturbing.

... hadn't told us anything along the way, not even a word. He just walked down, somewhere in the middle of the train of people going down the slope, wasn't even leading our way, so we could have done this trip just by ourself, as it looked so far - public transport, no guidance.

Our camp for the night was a very basic (understatement!) adobe hut. We were told dinner was ready and I saw, this was going to be a difficult trip - we only got a little bit of ...