Arequipa-day 2

After having a huge buffet breakfast on our hostel roof restaurant, we headed to Mundo Alpaca (Alpaca World). This is a store that is everything alpaca; part petting zoo, part demonstration area, part Peruvian textile museum and part store. A person handed us branches with leaves to feed the animals as we arrived at the alpaca cuddling area. We were immediately sighted by all the alpacas who lovingly came …

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Arequipa; a city not to be missed

I have fallen in love with this city known as the White City because of its buildings created from white volcanic rock. It is utterly charming. I also cannot say enough good things about our hostel, Hostal Solar,  (which is more like a hotel); it is centrally located, super clean, has great showers, big fluffy towels, comfy beds, they clean your room daily, they have friendly and helpful staff …

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Arequipa to Colca Canyon and Back

Upon arriving into Arequipa at 5:30am, we were moved from our double decker bus into smaller Van’s as the streets are too narrow for the large buses. We were taken to our accomodation the Hostal Solar. It was cold at that time of the morning so I pulled out my hat and gloves. Since our two day, one night tour of Colca Canyon left at 8:00am, we were able …

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Huacachina to Arequipa -Nazca Lines

As I mentioned before,  Huacachina is a very small village. Last night people staying at the Wild Rover Party Hostel partied on till 6am. Although staying on the other side of the village, we could hear them. I still managed to sleep since our bed was quite comfy. We organized our suitcases this morning and had cold showers. We had breakfast at our hotel before heading over to the …

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