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Arequipa, the One City in Peru I Could Have Skipped
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 21 March 2012
I tried to like Arequipa. Really, I did. But try as I might, I just couldn’t get past the feeling of boredom in Peru‘s second largest city, despite the fact that the historic city center, known as the “White City” due to the many buildings constructed from a white volcanic rock known as sillar, is [...]
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Condors of Colca Canyon Survive on a Wing and a Prayer
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 17 March 2012
“We probably will not see condors today,” our guide announced as we pulled up at the Mirador de los Volcanes. “In December and January they migrate to the coast of Peru to feed on dead sea lions.” The tour bus erupted with complaints. “Why weren’t we told this when we booked the tour? Seeing the [...]
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The Best Outdoor Activities in Peru
Blog: GoBackpacking - 29 February 2012
The following is a sponsored post provided by Viventura. or the adventurous spirit who enjoys the outdoors, travel to Peru to experience the vacation of a lifetime. Join any number of South America tours for your journey to Peru, and the northwestern region of the continent. Visitors to Peru will be situated between the Pacific Ocean and [...]
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Travel Sights to make you Squirm – Frog Juice in Peru, Jugo de Rana
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 21 November 2011
Bizarre Travel Sights – The Frog Juice/Jugo de Rana Stand in Arequipa, Peru Today’s ‘What the f&*$ is that?’ travel photo is from John from Jetpunk.com – which is about...
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Peru Highlights
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 21 December 2010
We didn’t do any of the things you are supposed to do in Peru: we didn’t walk the Inca Trail, spot condors at Colca Canyon, go sand boarding in Huacachina, or fly over the Nazca lines.
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Vegetarian Survival Guide to Peru
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 16 December 2010
Was Peru better for vegetarians than anywhere else in South America? In a word, no. We still lacked the ability to be able to eat cheap, local food as it almost always contained meat.
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Photo of the Week: Santa Catalina Monastery, Arequipa
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 5 December 2010
Santa Catalina Monastery is one of the highlights of Arequipa in southern Peru. The over 20,000 square meter convent dates back 400 years and is a city within a city. It’s a wonderful place to explore with brightly coloured buildings, narrow streets, pretty plazas and the original cells of the nuns.
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Viva indeed! Arequipa, Peru
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 30 August 2010
It’s 6pm on August 15th in Peru’s second largest city, Arequipa. On the street below our window a small Cassanova in a cream three piece suit twirls his six-year-old seňorita. Her colourful skirt billows out around her and for a moment her partner is lost in a cloud of pinks and blues. When he re-emerges [...]
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Arequipa – The Things You Shouldn’t Miss
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 18 June 2010
As mentioned – several times, in fact – Arequipa is really rather lovely. You could be forgiven for just mooching around the city for days, eating really nice food in really nice restaurants, gazing at the buildings. But there are a few things that it’s rather famous for, and that you should definitely make [...]
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Flight of the Condors - Canyon del Colca
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 14 June 2010
Not only is Arequipa the most tranquil and pretty places in Peru, it is also close to a canyon more than twice as deep as the famous Grand Canyon in the United States, called Colca Canyon. That statistic alone makes you want to take a look. Coupled with this chance to see some natural wonder is the chance to do a bit of bird watching while you're there. There is an area called Cruz del Condor high up overlooking the canyon, a spot where condors like to hang out and where you can hang out to watch them.
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Arequipa and kebabs!
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 10 June 2010
Back in Peru after a speedy and efficient journey north through Chile, we headed to our last 'new' destination of the journey. Our sojourn in Chile felt like sheer comfort and the small taster of the country left me wanting to return - albeit with a slightly healthier bank balance! Even the overnight bus from San Pedro de Atacama to Arica was enjoyable. It was clean, comfortable and they had someone behaving like an air steward, getting everyone blankets and pillows on request. All very civilised.
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San Pedro de Atacama To Arequipa – Long, But Nice And Easy
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 9 June 2010
So easy that I don’t even know if a post is necessary, but it seems to be a very popular route so I suppose it’s a good idea to map it out in case anyone needs it. From San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, you can get a night bus to Arica, up near the border. [...]
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Crap Insurance
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 29 May 2010
Just wanted to post an unfortunate story of having our stuff stolen and the insurance (purchased via worldnomads.com) looking for ways to avoid payment rather than doing their job of providing protection. Please be aware of this as having insurance doesn't mean you're protected, and just because your bags are locked and checked in with a reputable company doesn't mean they can't be broken into
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Come Visit Us, We’ll Show You a Good Time!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 19 May 2010
5/10/10: Arequipa, Peru Since Kevin’s dad (henceforth referred to as Dad Curry) was nice enough to come down here to meet us, we thought the least we could do would be to show him a good time. So here’s what we did the last two days: Cooked and ate pasta for lunch When we go [...]
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Hurry, Curry and Come Visit Peru!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 18 May 2010
5/9/10: Arequipa, Peru If you’ll indulge me, I’d like to take a survey. How many of you readers are married? [Tabulating results...] Wow, only 200,000 of you? That means that over 80% of our audience is young, hip kids. Ok, out of the married folks, how many have taken a honeymoon? [Tabulating results...] 180,181 – [...]
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Guess Who?
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 17 May 2010
5/8/10: Arequipa, Peru I love Arequipa. I know Kevin already wrote about this with his post a couple of days ago, but I think it’s worth repeating. I love Arequipa. Here’s what we did today: walked to the ATM, ate some lunch (Peruvian Chinese), got some soft serve at the food court in the mall, [...]
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A List of My Ineptitudes
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 16 May 2010
5/7/10: Arequipa, Peru Ineptitude 1: Booking Our Tickets Home I suppose you could put this down to bad luck, an extension of our cama-bus-curse perhaps, but whatever it was, bad luck or just bad service, the bottom line is this: over the last three days, I have spent 390 minutes and three seconds on Skype [...]
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Arequipa is a Keepa’ (That’s Slang for Keeper)
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 15 May 2010
5/6/10: Arequipa, Peru South America is our favorite continent. We held a meeting over dinner a few days ago and we made it official. (For those who are curious, Africa came in close second, then Australia then Asia. We loved Asia, don’t get me wrong, but somewhere had to be last.) Arequipa is our favorite [...]
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第七十三天：有賊呀！！！
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 1 May 2010
我們的東西不見了！今早才說秘魯天下太平... 我應該用 "老貓燒鬚" 來形容自己嗎？對上那次遇小偷是七年前的事；還記得事發後我哭得死去活來 -- 接待我們的朋友在最後一天忽然說要參加婚禮著我們找旅館住，旅費緊絕的我們找不到相宜的住宿，唯有睡在街頭。坐火車到了接駁長途巴士的車站附近，打算倒頭就睡前在車站被小偷以分散注意力方式偷去背包，相隔 10 多分鐘始發現背包不翼而飛，最傷心是日記本沒了！也許我實在哭得太厲害，不法之徒偷去貴重物品後把背包丟到警局旁，早上警察到車站找我並物歸原主。雖然日記簿失而復得但我仍咬牙切齒說不會讓事件重演。 這一次，沒哄沒騙，只怪我們太相信巴士公司的職員，並把我們的行李 check-in 得太早，讓歹徒有機可乘。可是我必須讚揚他們的高超技術，好讓我們坐完車到旅舍打開行李時也不覺有異，直至三天後執拾輕便行裝才知攝影機、電話和現金不見了！ 我這個人很古怪，
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Day 74: Where's our money??
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 27 April 2010
POLTUR - Tourist Police in Cusco Bad news. We were repacking our bags for a side trip to Machu Picchu when soon enough things didn't seem right. My cash stash envelope disappeared. Well, it must be in the backpack somewhere... "look carefully" I thought to myself. "I think someone's been through my pack" I heard KF say soon after. A couple of her items were misplaced in different parts of
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Day 70: City of Stone
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 20 April 2010
Arequipa's majestic stone cathedral Arequipa. Known as the "white city" of Peru with many of its churches and colonial buildings constructed from white-greyish volcanic rock. Perched at 2,300m high amongst the cragged Andes mountain range, Arequipa for me is the city of stone. Everything from its grand arched plaza and majestic cathedral seemingly carved out from rock. Arched walkways in
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¡Hola Peru!
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 16 February 2010
A question for you all... Would you spend an extra $800 for a direct flight...or endure 3 days of travel? $800...or 22 hours on an uncomfortable bus, trying to sleep while Barney Rubble snores in the back row, going without 3 meals because they are just that inedible, sitting right beside a boy who vomits all over his pants with about 6 hours yet to go? Oh, and had part of my backpack taken off, rummaged through, and then given back - apparently the robber saw nothing of interest.
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Arequipa and its 'adventures'
Blog: Cogs Watch - 3 January 2010
The girls and I made a split decision to move on to Puno and Lake Titicaca via Arequipa. We were told Arequipa was worth visiting for a couple reasons. The first was to see the exhibit of 'Juanita the frozen ice maiden' - a mummy discovered in 1995 on the top of Mount Ampato, just outside Arequipa. She was sacrificed as a child by the Incas around 500 years ago when she was aged between 12 and 14, and her body remained preserved by the freezing temperatures.
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I did not know the Uros Islands were part of the Epcot Center
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 28 October 2009
What a disaster in Arequipa. We had arranged a motorcycle tour for the Colca Canyon with what seemed like a very reputable operator, Felipe. We had setup to get the two 250cc bikes on Monday morning, but we were unable to contact him, so we pushed it back a day. Monday night [...]
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Toro Madness!
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 26 October 2009
Link to video of the Bullfight, Part One Link to video of the Bullfight, Part Two Oh, what a day! Let’s just start at the beginning. The beginning being Pisco Sours and birthday cake at 8am compliments of Pichin, the hostel owner. He is like a little kid in a 60yr old mans body. [...]
