Arequipa, Peru

After spending a very non eventful day in Nazca (Gerard did a flight to see the Nazca lines), Alex and I took an overnight but to the city of Arequipa in the south of Peru.

We really enjoyed Arequipa as it’s a beautiful white city, full of tourist shops and good restaurants. We spent a few days wandering around the city and then we did a day trip to Colca Canyon, which is the second deepest canyon in the world. It is twice the depth of the Grand Canyon!

On the trip, we stopped to watch the Andean condors. They are huge scavenger birds with a wingspan of up to 3 metres! We visited the viewing point of an active volcano, which is 5000 metres above sea level. The air was very thin!Read more