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| La Plaza de Armas |
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| Santa Catalina Monastery - small city within Arequipa |
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| A condor seen from the Mirador del condor on the way to the Canon de Colca |
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| Canon de Colca - the start point (downhill for 3h30) |
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| Guinea pigs in the kitchen - we had to choose which ones we wanted for dinner... |
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| Thierry ate a whole one as I did not really like it and some others at the table neither... Chewy and not very meaty! Apparently it needs to be marinated first... we will try again... |
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| Thierry picking up some tunas at 7 am for breakfast (cactus fruit or fig) |
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| Tunas... I really like it and nice pinky color! |
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| Styven (our wonderful guide) and a mamita |
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| The Canon de Colca team (Equipo Nueve) |
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| Down is the Sangalle Oasis and we can see our next day trek - uphill for 2h30, 1100 m... scary! we started a t 5am to get away from the sun as much as possible... It was a good idea! |
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| A little swim in the Canon de Colca - refreshing... |
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| I have done it... 1100 m in 2h30.. not too bad I think! |
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| Peruvian terrasses... Beautiful... |
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| Funny tuk-tuk or moto-taxi in Peru |
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| We were at 4900 m of altitude with view on several volcanoes, among them - El Misti... |
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| Llamas, abundant in Peru as well as Alpacas... |
After a very long journey, more than 20h all together spent in transport, we arrived in Arequipa, very modern city. We did not picture Peru like this at all. We had left some friends in Chile but soon met Julie while crossing the border with who we will have travelled at the end 2 weeks in total. Julie is French (again I should say), just to point out the incredible numbers of French travellers in South America! Good on us... Adventurous we are! We were thus ready to go for dinner to try our first CENA. In Chile, people praise Peruvian food so we were actually keen on trying as soon as possible. A cena (or almuerzo) costs between 2.50 (the cheapest we found) and 6 Soles (0.5 and 1.5 Euros) and includes a sopa (with rice, pasta...) followed by a segundo such as lomo saltado (my favorite), aji de pollo... with rice AND papas fritas all together. Quite heavy we should say... We better exercice a lot during our stay we thought... Anyway, my first choice was biftec and not the best as it was not beef. I don't know what it was... Not very impressed and I won't be later neither, even though we will taste better food during our stay in Peru, as my stomach got upset the whole time in the country!
Let´s talk about the trek we have done in the Canyon de Colca. Wake up at 3am ....
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