Back in Arequipa we decided to do the free walking tour that we had missed a few days earlier. It didn't start until the afternoon so we spent the morning enquiring with tour agencies about doing some mountain biking, either down El Misti or Chachani Volcano. Unfortunately we found this activity was a little out of our price range, and it was difficult to know who to believe as one agency would tell us one mountain was great and the other not so great, and the ne...

The bus rolled into Arequipa at about 5.30am. While our room wasn't ready we were able to rest in another room for a few hours which was well needed, before switching to our room and freshening up. We went to a crepe restaurant for some brunch which was delicious, then made our way to the main square where we thought a free walking tour was taking place at midday. Unfortunately we got the square wrong so we missed it! The main square was full of life with street...