The next couple of days were almost an afterthought, an addendum. It had not been included in the original itinerary the tour company had mapped out for our South American sojourn, but I found reference to this place while I was trawling through the internet preparing for our trip – the Colca Canyon deep in the Peruvian Andes where the condors fly! That leapt out at me as something Lindsay would absolutely love, the ‘cherry on the cake’ for a bird lover.
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| Arequipa is ringed by snow-capped volcanoes |
Another early morning flight saw us winging our way south to Arequipa where we spent an afternoon and evening before heading for Chivay and Colca Canyon. Arequipa is known as White City as many of its buildings are made of the white volcanic rock, ashlar I think. The city is surrounded by towering volcanoes so the setting is quite spectacular. We weren’t so interested in being tourists in this quite large and growing city as we were champing on the bit to get to the canyon. But we did take a wander to look at the impressive cathedrals and monasteries. The altitude was not as high as we had been recently in Bolivia but we were still higher than Mt Kosciusko!
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| Basilica Cathedral of Arequipa |
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| The city square - Plaza de Armas |
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| The University |
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| This power metre caught my eye |
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