Ensueno Hotel Arequipa

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... a police woman took our details and the taxi drivers before we could leave the terminal, obviously not the safest place in Peru then! However for us all was good, lovely taxi driver telling us about Arequipa and when we found our hostel didn&#8217;t exist (great guide book again!) we redirected him to another that we had been recommended by a couple just before we left Cusco: Posada de Cacique, and boy we were glad we chose here... The owner was lovely, we had woken ...

Ok, first I MUST PREFACE THAT i am using a spanish keyboard and the letters are mostly rubbed off so please excuse the typos! <br><br>Spent themorning in Miraflores. What lovely weather! Cloudy, humid and cool it was a nice chage from hot and dry Pueblo. Alas, it would not last long. I walked along the malecon overlooking the playa and city. There are a few people out and about this early. There are families with children ...

... in one corner, and the rest is a labyrinth of rooms adn corridors that we easily spent two hours wandring around. <br>After that, we decided we didn´t feel like another $1 meal (which are filling and interestnig but not always that good) and found a roof top restuaruant. We sat up there for a while, surrounded by bushes of flowers, looking over the cities rooftops to the snow capped mountains, drinking pisco sours and thinking life is pretty good.<br>xo Em

... which had melted the ice. Kind of ironic when you think about what she was sacrificed for. Today, she sits preserved in a hermetically sealed tomb viewed by people from all over the world. Quite eerie really as it's quite easy to forget that it's a human being in the glass box and not just some other museum curiosity.<br><br>After a spot of lunch, we took a wander around the Convent of Santa Cantalina. I know that this ...

Arequipa, Perú's white city, got rave reviews from two weeks of travellers at Pachamama, so I was really looking forward to visiting. Unfortunately, it failed to charm me, and I didn't spend much time there. Perhaps it was too much of a city for me. Too much hustle and bustle, too difficult to cross the street in the flood of taxis jostling for position. Perhaps I had just been in the country for too long. Or maybe it's just that it's difficult to keep a "white city" clean ...

... my curry sauce was delicious while Miriam knew well that it was the foulest and farthest thing from a nice curry sauce and would leave me eating solo in my ignorance! But, hazzar, this time was to be different. I found some extra ingredients that I hadn&#8217;t thought of using in the past to finally make the perfect curry, befitting any meal you&#8217;ve had in the past, unless that is if I cooked it for you!<br><br>Recipe: Homemade Chicken Curry for 2 (the second person also being ...

... looking that group up on iTunes.<br><br>We now have added two more forms of transportation to our repretoire: bike taxi and moto taxi. The bike is the cheapest and coldest way to go, but you can see and hear the activity on the street much better. The moto taxi is closed in and faster and still pretty fun. Some of them have Batman shaped windows on the back- seriously. So that brings our list to bike taxi, moto taxi, bus, van, car, motor boat ...

... im sure were designed for mountains, not sand. Peddling in sand is so much work, and it doesn´t matter if you are going nicely downhill with momentum, ´cause as soon as you hit that sand you slow right down. Argh! Other useful lessons for riding in sand...don´t ever try and turn becaue you will just end up in the sand yourself, and don´t ever try and brake sharply for risk of a similar result. <br><br>Oh, and never be fooled that downhill ...

... I´m thinking of skipping it altogether. Part of it is the price, part of it is the time (I´ll end up having limited time to actually see Arequipa, supposedly one of the most beautiful places in all of Peru!). But I think the biggest part of it is that I´m just not up for another side trip right now! After returning from Lake Titicaca last night, I updated the blog and then went to dinner. By 8:30 pm I was waiting for the check and I was barely lucid...I was so exhausted and ...