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We spent six days in Arequipa because it was such a lovely city. It looks like a larger, more modern Cusco, with a grand plazza surrounded by shops and restaurants and mountains in the distance. We managed to get a great hotel for 20 soles a night , but this meant we spent more time than we should have watching ´Sony Entertainment Television´ the greatest channel ever…
Anyway, when we arrived it was election week (or weekend) and we were told the catastrophic news that there would be no alcohol for the next three days because it had been banned! Imagine if they tried to do that at home… Oh but we were allowed Pisco sours for some reason unknown to us or Michael the waiter.
We spent a lot of time eating because the food was, for the first time, really good! Thousands of colourful cakes, which i tried at least half of since they made them in large or minature! Amazing creperies and even a Chinese that we don´t think gave us food poisoning! We also shopped, and I spent a lot of money on an Alpaca coat which I justified as my birthday present. It didn´t take much justifying before i bought it…
We visited the Santa Catalina convent which was beautiful, and really huge. The vow of poverty is definitely in question, they seem to live very comfortably. We also had guided tours of a few museums; saw the Juanita mummy which is a girl who was sacrifced to the mountain gods by the Incas, and who is almost perfectly preserved because she was frozen.
My birthday was on Wednesday so we booked full body massages, which turned out to be with two blind sisters! They were really sweet though and were very impressed with how beautiful we were!! We also got a hotel room with a jacuzzi and bought alcohol and food (mangos, pringles and of course oreos!) and spent the evening in there until we were both sick and couldn´t go out! What a great day!
The bus last night to Nazca wasn´t great, so stuffy and uncomfortable and Nazca is absolutely boiling, which is why we are inside now. We have booked flights over the lines for tomorrow morning in a three seater plane, just got to try not to get ill before then!
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