El gran viaje 2007

Well, we´ve officially been in Arequipa for a week-- a long time in the backpacking world. Aside from our rough start and a super-noisy hostel, we´ve had a nice, relaxing time here.

We spent our first few days just hanging out-- walking around the city center a little bit, trying restaurants, going to the movies. And then we spent our next few days, well just doing all that some more. I am not ashamed to say we spent an entire day sitting on bean bags and watching TV.

Finally on Sunday, after a comedy of errors involving lost peices of paper and wrong numbers, we got a hold of Sergio´s relatives here and on Sunday and Monday they showed us around their city a little bit. And okay, we saw another movie.

Then yesterday we decided we had better actually do something in order to justify spending so much of our last precious weeks here, so we headed out on a two-day tour of the Colca Canyon. The Colca Canyon is the deepest canyon in the world, or so they say around here. The scenery was beautiful and we had a nice two days. The highlight was the hour spent watching the endangered Andean condors soar across the canyon at the Cruz del Condor.

I think Sergio and I may just be ready to move on from Arequipa though, and we´ll be heading up to Lima (with a few stops along the way) soon.

(no photos because I´m out of space for June... oops!)