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Published: February 9th 2011
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street vendor and customer
taken from the second level of our fancy bus to Arequipa from Puno Hola!
We sped out of Puno faster than the Millenium Falcon and headed to the city of Arequipa. The city has a lot of old Spanish colonial buildings and is situated in the shadow of three mighty volcanoes. We also dropped a couple of kilometres in elevation so theres no need to chew on the controversial leaf of the Erythroxylum coca or to drink coca tea. The cocaine plant has a lot of medicinal qualities to it, easing the strain of altitude sickness is one of them.
One of the highlights was a visit to the Santa Catalina Convent, a Spanish-built building dating back to the 1500s.
Hasta Pronto.
T and D
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WOW, DAVE, you look beautiful, it sure changes a person when they shave off their beard, you are not regonizable, but you look handsome, you did before, but more now, Boy theresa, on your holiday, is that all you do blowing bubles, really cute, LOVE YOU GUYS MOM