16 hours on a bus to Arequipa
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
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