Hi all, Nick Here: yes, its time to say goodbye to Bolivia, land of cheap food, cheap thrills, and cheap gastro and enter the tourist wilds of Peru. We took a bus from copacabanna on the shores of lake titicaca through to puno, and with a quick "Amazing Race" style negotiation managed to jump aboard a moving bus to Arequipa within 5 minutes of our arrival. And amazingly without totally being fleeced of all our cash. Arequipa is a town most renowned for its proximity to the worlds two deepest canyons. Now many of you have heard of some of the natural disasters that the Andes throws out. Especially in Peru where there have been some devastating earthquakes in recent history. Now we recently managed to escape by a few weeks the chaiten volcano disaster. Attached
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