Downtown Arequipa

A few fun facts about Peru:
1. Black slaves were used in Peru up until the 1800´s, can you beleive that? Even in SA?
2. Arequipa was named afted the man who founded it, Harry Keeper, but since the locals couldn´t pronounce that very well it morphed into ARequipa.
3. Human Sacrifice is STILL practised to day in remote areas of Peru...STILL!

Anyways, today I spent the day in downtown ARequipa. I went out for breakfast (which I never do) but the resteraunt was on a terrace overlooking the main square and I just had to. So I had this huge breakfast of fresh orange juice, coffee, toast, this awesome fruit salad and of course...a hamburger? I mean its breakfast, why wouldnt you have a hamburger? Anyways it was very good. Then I saw a few churches and a colonial house. Then I spent a few hours in an old monistary. It was like, 4 city blocks and so pretty. I got a guided tour with some other girls and I took lots of pictures. Then I went to go see JUANITA THE ICE PRINCESS. She was a child sacrifice that they found frozen on the top of a mountain. It was creepy but really neat!

I´ll be out of touch for a few days because Im going on a three day trek idown into what they thought was the deepest canyon in the world! Turns out the one beside it is 150ft. deeper...oh well. ANyways there will be hiking, rewarded by lots of hotsprings and at the very end we go to a national condor (like the bird) reserve. Ive seen other peoples pictures and it looks amazing! Anyways, Im calling this my pre-inca trail workout. Should be fun!