When we arrived back at the bus station in Arequipa we asked a taxi driver to take us to our hotel and he said no because there was a procession on. A bit miffed we asked him exactly how we would get there if a taxi couldn´t take us, and he said we needed a smaller car (his was a Focus)... we are still not sure how that would help us. Luckily another taxi driver in an equally sized car took us. Back at the hotel we had another scare as neither mine nor Alex´s ...

Short blog: In the morning we were confronted with Lolo, the 35 year old tortoise that lives in the hotel garden! First job of the day was to return to the same bus station we arrived at earlier in the morning to book tickets to the Colca Canyon for the next day. While we were there we saw lots of loaves of bread with faces on them strung up in the shops (you will see a demonstration of this in a subsequent blog). Then we went to the Santa Catalina convent in th...