We spent the next few days in Arequipa, Peru, the next populated city in Peru after Lima, with about 2 million people. We were up about 2500 meters at this point. We flew over alot of mountanous terrain between here and Lima. I didn't see much vegetation while flying over head and the same was the same on land. But the view was still amazing, even though it was hundreds of miles of rocky and desolate terrain.

It was still  morning when we landed. We were picked up by the hotel van. Our hotels name was La Casa De Mi Abuela. This is probably the best hotel we stayed at. They had a nice spacious courtyard, with great landscaping and a medium sized pool in the the middle. I was rooming with Rita and Josh, but we didn't get into it right away, so we hung out in the room Andrea and Francesca were sharing until our rooms were ready.

We made it early enough to catch a delicious breakfast, which I think was included in our stay. After breakfast, I laid down in Andrea and Francesca's room, since I was feeling a bit light headed and neasous. I figured the altitude and decrease oxygen was getting to me.

We finally got into our room, which was decent too. I shared a room with Rita and Josh, and I had a small area in the room that was up a couple of stairs to myself.

 We spent the first day touring the city.

On the second and third day we took a bus to Colca Canyon where we went up to an elevation of about 15 thousand feet and back down to a small city. That night we went to some hot springs and early the next morning we saw some condors in the canyon.

Here are some of the pictures: