Arequipa, Peru

We left the chaos of Lima behind us, not much to tell except it was a swanky hotel with a soft bed and great shower. Scored again with emergency exit seats, if only for an hour and a half, ahhh it´s the little things in life...

Arequipa is another town at the base of a volcano, Misti, which sits at almost 6000 metres high! The city itself is at 2300 metres, so when we got off the plane, straight away we were a little short of breath. It´s a great town, named the white city after the volcanic stone used to build most of the buildings here. We visited a museum that houses the "ice princess", Juanita. She is a 500 year old mummy, perfectly preserved by the ice on top of the mountain on which she was sacrificed to the gods by the Incas, quite brutal the story, but that´s for another time.

For dinner, Cate had an alpaca chop, quite tasty but a bit tough. Neither of us were game for guinea pig, a local specialty. We knocked back a few pisco sours (local drink) and hit the sack, ready for a big day the day after to the Colca Canyon.