Arequipa, well off town in the south of Peru, was our favourite city since Cartagena, Colombia. Mainly because it is big, full of beautiful white volcanic stone buildings and very cheap 'Chinese' (read Peruvian style Chinese) restaurants where 4 soles/1 pound gets you a plate bigger than your head.
We saw great museums; - including seeing Juanita the ice princess who was sacrificed by the Incans to appease the mountains/gods; a giant convent (it was called a monastery but was filled with nuns, tricky - it's so big it has it's own internal streets) and ate good crepes (not in the convent although we did get a great oreo milkshake in one of the nun's cells - they'd turned it into a cafe, wasn't just from a very generous nun.) We also ate so much arroz chaufa (chinese rice) that we haven't eaten any more since arequipa. It was good though.
Plaza de Armas
Trine gets her shoes expertly shined / Cool looking baby chills by a bench
Carved volcanic stone building (unseen - courtyard full of incredibly expensive alpaca clothes)
Inside the basilica
On top of the basilica, playing with bells
Silencio in the convent
No comments:
Post a Comment