Plaza de Armas

16 hours on a bus to Arequipa

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January 14th 2007
On Friday night, I left Lima at night and headed to "the white city" of Arequipa. Originally I had planned to travel through the highlands of Peru to get to Cuzco where I would take off on the Inca Trail for Machu Piccu, but the highways and bus times redirected my travels to a southern coast town of Arequipa, which earned it´s nickname from the many buildings constructed from a rare volcanic roc ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more