Nazcans and Nuns
July 4th 2007 We took the night bus to Arequipa (which arrived at a painful 5 in the morning). After a bit of a nap, we had a look around the Santa Catalina convent. Today, there are only 30 or so nuns living in the convent, but in its day, it would have been quite a little village. The complex takes up a whole street block and has its own internal streets and parks. The nuns had it relatively good. Most were t
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