Away for a few days

Hello everyone

We´ve been in Arequipa for about 3 days now after a gueling 11 hours bus ride from Bolivia. We have one more loooong ride and then it´s back to Canada to see all you lovely people! Arequipa is beautiful with gorgeous white stonework (the stones are lava that cooled very quickly). In any case, it´s a great place with a fair bit of colonialism. We´ve done a few neat things, such as watching crazy parades and seeing Juanita the Frozen Mummy which was truly amazing, but perhaps the most adventurous thing we´ve done is eat Cuy. Cuy is a dinner speciality in much of south america but we´ve been avoiding it to this point... because it´s guinnea pig. And their cooked whole (minus the guts) so it still looks like a guinnea pig. I will show you the pictures ASAP... it was somewhat unpleasant, but it had to be done! We also had an alpaca tenderloin which was much more normal.

So today we´re off to the Colca canyon, debatably the deepest canyon in the world (just barely second, actually) and an excellent place to see condors. I feel like a bit of a wimp because we´ve had to cop out and do the bus tour without actually going down into the canyon. It´s supposed to be beautiful but I´ve injured my knee and walking down more than a flight of stairs isn´t really an option. Tear tear, but I guess that we just can´t do everything. We´ll be back tomorrow night from this outing (Dec. 17th). I´ll send post some pictures then.

Lots of love!