Hostal El Sillar del Suizo Arequipa

... je vais me balader sur les montagnes qui surplombent la vallee
cets plus que desert, pas un arbre, pas une plante, pas une goutte deau, mais un point de vue sans cesse sur la luxuriante vallee et les autres montagnes de sables qui se perdent a lhorizon...
je reprds le combi pour arequipa et jarrive a la nuit
demain cest patafoin qui arrive

... 1502;י 01; החמים.
מנק' התצפי 14; שיושב 14; על שפת הקניו 03; ראינו את הקונד 93;רים שהתקר 89;ו עד למרחק ש ...

So we arrived in Arequipa following our night bus. Iīm sure it was a first for me, when a night-bus load of people were involved in a game of Bingo. and the prize- return tickets to Cusco! The winner got very excited.

After the film on the bus finished I maintain that I failed to get any sleep for the remainder of the journey. The others however, told me stories of wheel spins and hour long hold ups which I ...

... of Puno. As if taxi drivers know this, one pulls up and we need no encouragement to jump on in and head to the bus station. Things get even better when we are met by a tour guide who offers us a hotel living room to crash in for a couple of hours before our next bus...for no charge. Genius. Poor Al has to drag my drugged **** off the bus, to the station, to the hotel, back again and on another bus with my rucksack. He does a brilliant job, but has confiscated all antihistamines from me.

... which was a very poor area until the influx of tourists in the last 10 years. While the others go to restaurante tourismo for lunch, we visit the pretty main square and I get to cuddle a baby alpaca from a traditionally dressed local Peruvian lady. On the way back to town, we stop for a view of the Andes at a viewpoint at an altitude of 4900m - starting to get headachey now.

Tomorrow we have tickets booked for the bus to La Paz, Bolivia.

... I'm excited for it. Last "class" involved beer drinking at the professorīs house and a free dinner of anticucho (cow heart medallions) completely "gratis".


Other things of note:

-Headed to La Isla de los Lobos Marinos tomorrow. Will be bringing my camera so that I can finally take some pictures. Expect those to be posted tomorrow night.
-Was walking down the street towards the University when I passed by a group of cheeky high school ...

... to rain, and we had to bring all of the furniture and stuff back in the rooms, covered in wet sand.. So Monday, we are going to have a joyous time cleaning the rooms all over again... The 4th time around..

Great, productive day today.. Tomorrow is church with Araceli, and a visit to Cesars and Elizabeths house.. =)

Buenos Noches!
Kelsey, and gram too!

P.S. We finally made it to the Bakery tonight!! YUM!! =)

... and jokes of KOB Live at MSG! Our ride quickly passed by watching terrible movies - Fast and the Furious 4 - and terrible music videos at an outrageously high volume. However, all was saved as we watched the Curious Case of Benjamin Button in the evening, which we both loved. We met Jeff and Harley (Oz), two long-term travelers who met at a jaguar preserve in eastern Bolivia where they literally babysat jaguars in the jungles. Awesome experience until they told ...

... really nice and down to earth. I can tell that things will be fun. Melanie, my roommate is a total sweetheart. I think we'll get along well. I've been enjoying the time with a few of the students mostly. I went shopping with Melanie and Andrea today. I think we'll go again sometime tomorrow together. I had a lot of fun with them and I think we have many great adventures to come! Well, I guess I'll write a little about what I actually did today... I got up early and got ready ...

... friends a lot. Now though I will be settling in one place for the next 3 months. Tomorrow I meet my new bosses who are based here in Lima. Then on 30th April I fly out to start work on 1st May as a Resident Naturalist at Explorers Inn in the Tambopata National Park which is in the Amazon Basin, east of here. I fly to Pueto Maldonaldo which is a small town on the river and then I have a 4 hour boat journey down river. I am excited and nervous. I am not ...