Blogs from Arequipa, Peru, South America - page 114

Hola amigos, como estas? (Spanish going quite well, on hour 4 of Spanish tapes which, worryingly, is an hour ahead of our tour guide who is supposed to look after us on the second half of the tour! Good incentive to keep at it or we will be going hungry and staying in dirt holes!) In both Equador and Peru they are mostly really friendly and always waving to us as we drive past in our big truck and some even offer to help us when we are lost in the cities. Also a lot of the hostel and hotels have live premiership and champions league so managing to keep up with most of the footie which is a bonus. Here´s the travel blurb: Went to visit two of the most important archeological sites in the ... read more

We were picked up by our guide from our hostel at 6am on Sunday morning and then caught the public bus to Cabanaconde which was the start point for our ´trek´. The six hour bus journey passed through the suburbs of Arequipa and then through into open plains with grazing Aplacas and Llamas and surrounded by snow capped peaks. After been introduced to our group consisting of 2 Beligum girls a French couple and a Canadian we were taken to small restaurant at our starting point, we had lunch of Alpaca steak and fresh trout and then started off on the walk down the canyon to our first destination of Tepay. The walk was a taken at quite a steady pace and took about 3 1/2 hours, our guide pepe was quite knowledgeable about the plants ... read more

We arrived at Lima airport at 11pm and after a wait and a wander through a crowd of people and taxi drivers holding boards with peoples names on we found our pre-arranged lift to our Hotel in Miraflores on the outskirt of Lima. In the dark the sights of Lima didn´t look too inviting and the smell of air pollution was heavy. The next day we decided to head straight out of Lima and start our journey south. So we headed down to Pisco a town a 4 to 5 hour bus journey south of Lima. The sights on the Journey were interesting, many houses look half built and we are not sure whether that is half built or half demolished. The streets leaving Lima seemed to be filled with hundreds of car repair places and ... read more

Cauky vsichni ctenari, v patek, 16.9.2005 vstavame v 5:30 hodin rano. Bus nam jede v 6:30 hodin smer Colca Canyon. Jedeme cca 3,5 hodiny, projizdime Chivay, pres noc zustavame v Yanque. Jsme ubytovani v rodinnem domecku La Posada. Po 11 hodine jdeme na vychazku okolo vesnice, nakonec zustavame par hodin v termalnim bazenu. Voda je tepla, sviti i slunicko. Odpoledne jdeme zpet, cca 20 minut chuze. Zda se, ze dnes jsme tu jedini turiste. K veceru sedime na zahradce, bastime a kluci popiji pivko (Arequipena). Vecer jsme se sli podivat na mistni svatbu, pak spat. Rano 17.9.2005 cekame v 5:00 hodin prede dvermi na bus do Cruz del Condors. Na misto prijizdime kolem 7 hodiny. Jsme u nejhlubsiho mista Colca Canyonu (1200m), cekame na vzletnuti kondoru. Par jich vyleta kolem 9 hodiny. Po 11 hodine nam ... read more

Zdravime vsechny Dnes rano v 6:30h. jsme vyrazili autobusem z Cusca smer Arequipa. Autobus znacky Volvo ma dokonce i zachod, topeni a televizi z DVD prehravacem:-) Cesta trvala asi 10h. a zprijemnovali nam ji americke akcni filmy, jako napr. Comando. V poledne prisla pani s dekou a nabizela za 3 soly obed.Deku rozbalila a mela v ni zabalene, upecene snad cele nejake zvire (radsi nepatrat po tom, co to bylo:-))).Rukou kousek ulomila a dala do igelitaku.Krome nas tri, vsichni v autobuse si dali jejich pochoutku.Pak postupne prisli dva recnici.Jeden za bonbony chtel prispevek na vzdelanost a tak a druhy nabizel kouzelne pilulky asi na vsechno. Domorodci pilulky kupovali, ale nas dealer neoblafl. V Arequipe na nas cekala na nadrazi anglicky hovorici pani a odvezla nas do utulneho hotylku, kousek od nadrazi. Arequipa je druhe nejvetsi mesto ... read more