27/6/06 - 29/06/06 leaving my beloved Cuzco was hard...it also meant parting of ways for many of us that had been travellin together for a while. Elliot was making his way to Lima to catch a flight back to Canada. Alex (whom i´d been travelling with since Buenos Aires), was making his way down to Puno with Helen B qwand Simon (2 Brits), Nick left to Santiago for a flight to New Zealand, Dave headed up quickly to Ecuador for galapagos trip.... so 5 of us left, we caught a bus to Arequipa. The bus (company called CIAL), was luxurious by Peruvian standards, but someone must have forgot to check the airconditioning- i almost fried as the heat scorched through the vents by my side! arriving around 6am, we headed straight to our hostel- THE POINT.
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