Blogs from Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru, South America - page 45

arrived in arequipa three days ago and got in on a guided excursion up volcano el misti which is 5822 meters high. on the trip were two guys from britain, one form poland, me and the guide was local...he said he´d been up this volcano over 200 times. music was the backdrop for this trip because the guide had a portable radio which he kept on literally the enire time and the station played only U.S. music from the eighties. it actually became a nightmarish scenario and the trip participants argued about who could be last in the lineup so as to be as far from the music as possible. at one point, phil (british) asked angel (the guide) to turn on the radio for just five minutes and angel responded ¨no problem¨ then when six ... read more

Well...I don´t write as eloquently as Jeff, however he is busy trying to find us a Peruvian Punk Rock Show.....so your stuck with me. Anyway, our travel plans are temporarily on hold as we are unable to leave Arequipa. I don´t even know where to start the last few days have been so action packed. Lets see I´ll try to start from the begining. We left our beautiful hotel in Haucachina surrounded by 200 ft high dunes Tuesday night....we took a 12 hour overnight bus to Arequipa. We decided on the $13 bus instead of the $26 bus....let me tell you it was miserable. I couldn´t sleep at all....the bus was complete dark, no aisle lights or anything and no toilet. It finally stopped once and me a another girl were directed to pee in a ... read more

Don't worry i'm alive and well and in an unknown suburb of Arequipa (just got on a bus which was supposed to be going to the centre of the city, but it didn't). In the last week I've: a) recovered from diarrhoea thanks to wonder drug Enterocolin, b) done the worlds most dangerous road via mountain bike and lived to tell the tale (crazy german guide couldn't shake me off!), c) been to Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca, d) been to floating islands and eaten very well in Puno, e) left travelling companion Lukas (he's now in Cusco doing a 7 day trek to Machu Picchu. I'm heading there tonight by super cama bus to do the standard 4 day Inca trail and by coincidence we'll be finishing on the same day. We never fell ... read more

Bon apres une nuit complete de voyage en bus assez dificil, Nous voila rendu dans une ville qui na absolument rien avoir avec le reste du perou. Les traces du tiermonde ici ...... je n ais rien vue de cela ou presque pas. Nous logeons dans un petit hotel avec balcon, pour 10 soles par nuit wow incroyable. Tout est vraiment beau ici avec les montagne au toit blanc, la ville est surnomer la ville blanche du a c est fabrication de maison avec de la piere de lave directement d un volcan.....inactif. Ici ont retrouve de tout magasin de voiture super marche coifeur de luxe, restaurant de luxe. j ai presque honte d etre ici alors qu il y a plus du 3/4 de la population perouvienne qui travail plus que tout homme le ... read more

Upon our return to Arequipa we had a day to explore the city. We decided that our first stop had to be the frozen mummy museum, where the famous Juanita is kept (well she is on holidays at the moment). Walking through the streets in Arequipa is lovely with many colonnial buildings surrounding you and interesting often incongruent sights everywhere you look.Some of the things they choose to sell in shops together is interesting. We took a little while to find the museum in the morning because it is actually inside another building. They were very organised, we were to see a documentary then be guided around the museum. The documentary detailed the discovery of Juanita and the ritual that found her on top of a volcano as a child sacrifice. In actual fact there were ... read more