Arequipa and Wiedersehen Nr. 11

The flight to Arequipa was quick and waiting at the airport was Marcos! How nice to see him again after all these years! He is not working as a vet anymore but has a hotel in the centre of this second largest city of Peru. It is closed due to renovations but I can stay in one of the older room as the only guest. Very cool. We decided to see each other at lunch again today. It seemed I had a very good sleep since the renovation noise didn't wake me up until 11am. I had my first Pisco Sour and fish ceviche at the Plaza de Armas for breakfast where I met his wife and his son. He is married to Luba, a woman from Ukraine. She lives in Peru now for four years, speaks plenty of languages since being a translater. Their son Andres is 2.5 years old and lovely. In the afternoon I booked a couple of treks: I will visit the Colca Canyon, walk the Salkantay-Trail and finally climb up Misti, a volcano at 5800m altitude, the one on the picture. Yippee !Read more