Posada Nueva Espana Arequipa

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

... an hour. I was certain I would be disappointed.<br><br>I am pleased to say my mood lightened when we approached "Cruz del Condor". Irrelevant of the birds, the Canyon looked stunning. It is twice as deep as the Grand Canyon and is phenomally beautiful. However the birds were the point of the trip and they did not dissapoint. <br><br>They are an impressive build with a wingspan of roughly 10 feet and are loved by the Andean people. The bird is a national ...

... in a somewhat bedraggled state covered in sweat, grime and dust and looking forward to a hot shower, a massage and a G&amp;T. The accommodation was described as basic and for once the copywriters were not over egging it. We had a straw hut with walls that anyone could look through, a roof made from hessian and palm leaves, the floor was dirt studied with stones and the four beds were made from bamboo. If you sat on one end of them the whole shooting match tipped over, catapulting the ...

... by the program. The sponsorship money comes from donations, right now from the US and from Europe. There are currently 210 people being sponsored, but the need is much greater. Some people have been on the waiting list for more than two years.<br><br>Today, we delivered beds to an elderly man and an elderly woman as part of this program. The pictures are worth a thousand words.

... habia estaba lista con bolsas de mareo a la mano.<br><br> De regreso pasamos por el pueblo de Chihuata con una vistosa iglesia en sillar blanco.<br><br>En la noche visitamos la calle San Francisco que tiene restaurantes muy bonitos y elegimos el restaurante Zingaro pero nos quedamos con las ganas de ir al Zig Zag que estaba lleno.<br><br><br><br> <br>

... on the overnight bus was a much less glamorous way to deal with it.<br><br> Its a pretty place. Arequipe really has all the ingredients you would need for a perfect city to visit. Dramatic setting, with the surrounding snow-capped mountains. Laid-back, friendly atmosphere. Pretty architecture - its an old colonial type place, so a lot of low, two-storey stuff, columns everywhere, clock towers on buildings, lantern-lit alleyways, arches, cobbled streets - you ...

... travellers from Lima, whom we spent part of an evening talking to and i managed to score myself a ring made from wire (woo hoo), and book ourselves a bus to Cusco as we were hoping to get there in time for the Inti Rami festival. <br>Turns out our plans didnt go quite as expected, showing up athe bus station to discover the roads into Cusco were all blocked and there was no way in apart from flying. Therefore we picked ourselves a new destination: Nasca. <br><br><br><br><br>

... again.<br><br>The city itself is nestled at the foot of 3 volcanoes: Chachani, Misti and Pichu Pichu, which look like normal mountain peaks and there is nothing scary about them as I thought there would have been. I start the day with a place, in which I see a llama for the very first time. Llamas are nice, but nosy; if you eat, they stick their noses into your plate; if you hide in a building when you're tired of them, they ...

... of meat: one small chicken leg, accompanied by 1 potatoe and a bit of rice. But I was so lucky that one of the Irish girls gave me her piece of chicken - guess she was vegetarian. It was so good to get some actual food. In the night, we actually got to sleep in a pretty decent hotel at Cabanaconde.<br><br>The last day of our three day adventure was easy. We just took the local public bus to Cruz del Condor, a viewpoint in the mountains to see the famous ...