Arequipa and Colca Canyon (a.k.a. Riding donkeys and eating guinea pig)
December 17th 2006 Claire:
We arrived in Arequipa, which is thankfully below 2500m, (above this height you can really start to feel the altitude) early in the morning. It's a beautiful city with lots to do and even its own indoor climbing wall! We stayed at the kinda famous Point Hostel which was great and organized a 3 day trek of the nearby Colca Canyon for us starting the next day.
Colca Canyon is a weird plac
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