Arequipa City walks

What a beautiful city Arequipa, we thought that we had been spoiled by Cusco, but Arequipa is definitely our favourite (mainly because the altitude isn't an issue here!) it has so much history too. We visited the old Monastery where the nuns of the city used to live back in 1579... And it wasn't cheap. It cost each nun or nuns family 2,400 silver coins to join.. So that's about $150,000 in today's money... Wow abit pricey! You can still join the Monastery today, as they're always on the look out for new members as they only have about 20 nuns atm! So they now use the monastery for tourist attractions only, for its history and beautiful architecture. But still use the cemetery for the deceased.. So you can't enter that part. We also visited the beautiful Basílica catedral (in plaza del armas) where we got to see the devil himself (1 of only 5 depictions of the devil in the world that exist inside a cathedral!! 😆 ) they have had to barricade him off as too many people were touching him lol!.. Btw this is on the next post 😁... Got to keep you guys reading somehow! Haha.Read more