Got to Arequipa staying in a great hotel called ´casa de mi abuela´my grandmother´s house and it felt like that! Arequipa is a fab town - very clean and we felt pretty safe. Visited the old convent which was so pretty with coloured washed walls esp against the background of the volcano El Misti. I even got brave enough to get my hair cut...yes i ended up like GI Jaffer1 but it´ll grow back! During our few days in Arequipa we visited the Colca Canyon getting up to about 3,900m. We stayed in a lovely place and tried alpaca meat mmmm. We became little piggies one night and ate far too much paying for it by sleeping very little...it gets harder for your body to digest at such high altitudes. we´ll never make that mistake again! Coca tea though was fantastic - shame we won´t be able to get it back home!
Got to see the mighty condor too which was really awesome. Bought lots of things here in the Colca Valley to send back as gifts...so you all have to be nice and send us emails to feel that we are being missed!
