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Published: January 24th 2010
Arequipa is the second largest city in Peru with a population of around 900,000 persons. Arequipa is located in the Andes Mountains of Southern Peru at an altitude of 7800 ft. Temperatures averaged about 75 degrees while we were in the area.
Chuck and I arrived to Arequipa the morning of Friday, January 15th. We found a taxi driver who drove us around town to secure a hotel room, reserve a t...
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Marmie
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YIKES!!!
CNN NEWS: Tourists, drivers trapped by Peru mudslides Posted Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:04pm AEDT Hundreds of tourists and cargo trucks have been trapped by mudslides in the Andean province of Cusco in south-eastern Peru, after heavy rain pounded the region, police said. Landslides and swollen rivers severed the rail line linking the city of Cusco, the former capital of the Inca empire, with the ruins of Machu Picchu at two points, the British-owned PeruRail said in a statement. The overflowing Vilcanota and Rio Blanco rivers in the area flooded hundreds of hectares of corn crops. Meanwhile, cargo trucks and long-distance passenger busses have lined up on the Cusco-Abancay highway, unable to proceed due to the overflowing Yanama river, which has flooded some 50 homes and also destroyed crops.