Posada el Castillo Arequipa

... beers in for the Barcelona-Madrid match! A taxi ride into town proved in vain as the Irish pub was shut so ended up giving up and going back to the hostel to relax in the sun.

The sunset with the mountain backdrop from the hostel here is magnificent and happening as I write.

We are out tonight for a bite and then Puno and Lake Titicaca tomorrow for sure. 1.30pm bus which stops at a few places of interest on the way.

Buenos Tardes

... 1500;יט שאוכל 97;ם במסעד 92; מקומי 14; (מאלה עם השלט סלמונ 00;ה בכניס 92;...) ושהוא טועם אלפקה...< br>את שעות ...

... her and tries it on, she has none of it but gives him an orange. He eats the orange and falls to the ground, she tries to make him better by whipping him with her handbag and waving her skirt in his face. He then wakes up and they both dance around. Exactly like pulling in a club back home. After their dance routine they try to drag unsuspecting members of the audience up to join in. Considering the audience consisted of our table of about 12 and another table of about ...

... 2000! As soon as I get some pictures on the computer, I´ll come back and add them in.

That night, we met up with a guy we met on the bus, Kurt, and decided to go hiking in Cotahausi Canyon. It´s a little off the beaten track, but it´s also (according to some) the deepest canyon in the world. We spent Monday running around getting food and camping gear, and finally, in a fluster made it to the train ...

... to wait on so we had to go to the only café which meant spending a fortune so we could stay in there for as long as possible. The only positive was the wifi which we took full advantage of and a comical Irish guy who was the only other English speaking person on our flight! We were relieved to finally board our plane to Santiago and get into bed once we arrived at our hostel.

... was visiting the Santa Catalina Convent, a nunnery that used to be a city within Arequipa as it had its own streets, houses and churches for the nuns only. We enjoyed the beautiful and colourful streets and squares, but overall thought it was a bit of a creepy place since the nuns (or rather their families) had to pay their way into the convent, were allowed servants/slaves, could eat from solid gold tableware and were completely cut off from the outside world.
Arequipa, Peru katandsuren

... of the bus. I fully expected to see her in pieces but even more incredibly she carried on talking about the restaurant! We all shouted nevermind that, are you ok?! Her back had luckily hit the rear view mirror and not the glass and that had shattered the windscreen. Getting out of the van it became clear what happened. The tiny narrow streets are on a grid and are so narrow that it is impossible to see down the road until you are actually at the junction, but instead of ...

... 35. Can't beat that ! Note though that this is because we were on a residential neighborhood and not in the city center. You won't get the same food for this price near the main plaza.

Our taste buds happy, we took a cab to the museum to see the Ice Maiden. In Arequipa, taxicabs don´t have meters. Everyone knows how much to pay to go anywhere in Arequipa, which is 3 soles ($1). Ain't that great ? no ...