Andenes Hotel Arequipa

... didn´t notice whilst I was concentrating, in vain, to sleep. <br><br>After a bit of a drive around various hostels we finally settled on one for the night. Next, with some of us keen to get some much needed kip, we thought we would quickly pop out to sort out our trip to the Colca Canyon. It took us 3 and a half hours and possibly a hundred different travel agents and plans before we finally handed some ...

... no birds so we took a little walk along the edge of the canyon to take in the scenery. We arrived back at the look-out about 1hr later and still no birds so we had to sit and wait. And wait... Some tourists left which at least gave us a better position. And finally after another hour or two, it felt like forever but now that I have no watch it´s all a bit of a guess,+ a solo condor flew past. <br> <br>Yes it was graceful, and it is a special ...

... not avoid them so off they went around the mill on horseback.<br><br>Arequipa is the only place in Peru where bull fighting is between bulls and does not involve a matador. The horns of the bulls are so precious that they are sealed in metal.<br><br>The last stop was our favourite. Back in the city we visited the museum to see the city&#8217;s most famous attraction "mummy Juanita", this is a sacrificed child of about 12 years old which is over 500 years ...

... br>In Arequipa eigentlich nur noch rumhängen in Cafes, Restaurants, &#8230; bis zur Abreise, wirklich eine gute Entspannung von den Strapazen. Den Kolca-Canyon habe ich dann auch gleich ausgelassen. Kondore hab ich schon gesehen und wenn er auch etwas tiefer als der Grand Canyon ist, ist er nicht so beeindruckend (sagt man). Dann doch lieber mit Norwegerinnen im Cafe rumhängen. Noch eine Nacht schlafen und ab in den Bus zum Titicacasee.<br>

... to get changed and fresh up a bit and we then go to a restaurante called Trattoria del Monasterio<br>It is famous to be one of the best place to try local dishes so let's do it<br>They do it Cochon d'inde, this cute animal....let's see if I like it.....<br><br>Tomorrow will be a long trip to Colca Valley in bus so we shall take it easy to be fresh<br>Plus altitude does not allow many excess here!!<br>

... with colorful flowers. This is probably sacreligious, but I think the crosses resemble scarecrows. In fact, the first time I saw one I thought it was a scarecrow, but I kept that little tidbit to myself until now. There were lots of stairs to Tapay. Pretty much 1 hour and 30 minutes of stairs, I just kept reminding myself to engange my abs and glutes. We were rewarded by a very nice view of the church with the mountains in the background, very ...

... the city is beautiful, the snow capped mountains in the background, clean cobbled streets, at leat 800 million little taxis, sun, nightlife, amazing restaurants, cheap food and drink, relaxed hostel with hammocks and general thumbs up all around. We actually slept in this morning for the first time in a while. We have been moving moving moving and really now plan to relax and take it easier, staying in one place longer, rather than trying to see everything. This is ...

... doing the hiking<br>aspects of it since our group there was mostly older people who can't<br>really hike or it was their first stop in their trip to Peru. Cruz Del<br>Condor was awesome and would love to go back there again since condors<br>look so awesome flying and they come so close!<br><br>Went back to my hostel, Buena Vista Hostel to get my things, relaxed then took a taxi to the Arequipa airport. Where, when I was ...

... that i love soo much, apparently someone by the name of ALAN has been running for president here and its plastered alllllll over the place, so il defz get a pic of that for the bass drum. the weather has been great so far, and should be the rest of the trip (apparently peru gets a little bit more than a few meters of rain a year) so im pretty stoked about that. no matter how much of a good time im having here im missing ...

... promptly started hitting her over the head! She just stood there and cried, and the head policeman dragged him away. Whatever inroads he´d been making were completely out the window now. I wish I´d known what it was all about! Anyway, because of all the drama we left Puno over 30 minutes late. Our first and only stop was the ugly city of Juliaca (see blog from May 6) where a bunch of people got on, including a man who´d been assigned the same seat as mine. Sorry, señor! He sat ...