Home of the Condor
June 15th 2006 A five hour coach ride ahead, we left Arequipa in the morning and past through several small towns where half built houses were spawling in the apparently tax free suburbs.
Soon after the landscape immediately changed from parched rock to scrubland scattered with tall cacti. On our left in the distance was the beautiful snow capped peak of Ampato, the peak on which the mummy of "Juanita" was d
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