It is about 4:00 pm on Sunday in Arequipa. We are sitting at an internet cafe in the bus terminal waiting for our 1:00 am bus to take us to Cabanaconde where we are hoping to see the second largest canyon in the world (twice as deep as the Grand Canyon) and the worlds largest bird (the Condor, which has a wing span of 3.5 meters). We were hoping to catch a bus this afternoon (the town is 5 hours away), but even with 5 bus companies running the same route, all o...

Hello everyone. It is 5:05 pm our time on a rainy Saturday in Arequipa, Peru. (We are drenched from the waist down, as drainage is poor and we have been splashed by passing cars numerous times.) We arrived here at 7:30 this morning after a low budget overnight 12 hour bus journey from Ica. As we have only been in the city for a few hours, we will use this blog to write about our experiences in Pisco. We first arrived in Pisco a week ago today coming from Lim...