Tierrasur Hotel Arequipa
Consuelo 210 Arequipa, Peru
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... was vertrok mijn bus naar Cusco. Cusco is enorm toeristisch, maar zeker een erg leuke en mooie stad. Het grote aantal toeristen had ook zo zijn voordelen: elke avond was er wel iets te doen. Of eigenlijk was het zelfs lastig om een avond niet uit te gaan. Zo kwam het dat ik de eerste dag van mijn Incatrail slaapwandelend doorbracht. Mijn gidsen dachten eerst nog dat ik behoorlijk last had van hoogteziekte, maar mijn uurtje slaap van ...
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Luckily at the great hostel I'm staying at, new friends are made quickly and I met up with an Australian girl and a German girl and spent my last day in Arequipa with them. We visited the museum which exhibits 'Juanita, the Ice Princes' - the frozen Inca maiden sacrificed on the summit of Ampato (volcano - 6288m) over 500 years ago. A very interesting visit as Juanita was actually on display...
Next stop... Nazca...
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Übernachtung im Nachtbus...
... day passed fast anyway :-)
Then our adventure "nightbus" started... the start was very easy and we soon found our bus... but we weren't able to board at that place, because the bus was supposed to park somewhere else... oh well... we waited, asked, waited, asked... and finally went back to the first spot and saw that people where boarding from there...
The seats were pretty comfy... but the temperature wasn't.... so we didn't sleep that ...
It WAS the Policeman's fault.
... in the lower plains, a more stubby look. Now every time he mentions these people he pushes his head and makes a funny face....... Hilarious!
We learn that the ancients made the higher terraces that we see all along the valley, the Incas, the lower ones... I can only sit in awe of the achievements of these people. Terraced gardens irrigation systems, all thousands of years ago .........brilliant...
Driving through the valley, we view Mt. Quehuisha. In this valley ...
Arequipa & Colca Canyon
... the zebra crossings are the biggest jokes ever!! Anyways, it was an experience at that (even though sometimes it took ages to cross the road as traffic just never seemed to stop – was manic)!!
The main reason for going to Arequipa is to use it as a base to visit Colca Canyon. But we spent the afternoon seeing a Church (as we do with Greg) – was quite cool actually had a bit of a private tour of the main Church, including seeing some of the ...


