We grabbed a quick sandwich for breakfast before setting out on our chores for the morning. Primarily it was getting money to pay for our Colca Canyon trip. Not many companies accept credit cards in Peru which means trip upon trip to the ATM. Even the ATMs are annoying because you can only take out a small amount of money in a single transaction, a hangover from the days when there were lots of robberies at ATMs in Peru. Once the payment for the trip had been so...

We didn't have an alarm set and were hoping for a long lie in but we were awakened at 6am by someone banging on our door looking for Stefano and Eva. Guessing they were late for their pickup but have no idea why they couldn't have checked what room they were staying in before banging on every door. We decided to go on the 10am free walking tour of the city, we've found them the best way to get an insight into a city and to get hints and tips on where to spend mo...

We were still on the bus when the sun came up and it felt like we had a decent enough sleep through the night. There was still a lot of desert and canyons down the coast which is supposedly due to the cold water currents running north up the coast. Despite the sunshine there is very little evaporation of sea water to come onshore as rain. As we headed inland towards Arequipa, it became a little bit more fertile with fields that had crops in them. The bus eventu...