Arequipa: La Ciudad Blanca

Arriving in Arequipa...
Around the Plaza de Armas








Lemonade @ Restaurant on the top (great view of the plaza)

Juanita "The Ice Princess" @ Museo Santury

Ice cream @ Manono's

Monasterio de Santa Catalina







Mountain biking in the countryside with Juan. (I booked him through my hotel, I highly recommend him!)




Here is my guide Juan, we stopped for a cool glass of chicha. (corn beer)



Stopping by a mill

My hotel: Hospedaje el Caminante Class, right by the monastery. I loved it here, highly recommend it. $15 a night, big clean rooms, quiet, polite staff, quasi-warm water.

Fabulous breakfast on the roof

Lima: the modern capital

Plane ride to Lima

Plaza de Armas




Cool old balconies


Chalk drawing on the sidewalk

Inca quipu @ Museo Lardo

Pottery @ Museo Larco

(and erotic pottery)


Govinda, tons of yummy vegetarian food for $3!

Street art in Minaflores

Park by the ocean in Minaflores



Churros and hot chocolate at Manolo

Street dogs

Plazza San Martin

Illuminated fountains: El circuito magico del aqua



My hotel....Hotel Espana right by the Plaza de Armas. I highly recommend it, it has so much charaacter! $15 a night for a private room, rooftop cafe, spiral-staircase-treehouse-museum vibe, surprisingly quiet, but hot water only quasi-reliable.

Rooftop garden with turtles, birds, dogs, and cats

View from hotel roof