Day 5 and 6

Day 5

Brief summary: visited small tower to see the Unesco world heritage site of the Nazca line, visited a museum of maria reiche, protecter of the lines. All quite interesting. Saw a mummy (it was gross), Went for a lovely swim, took a nap, got on overnight bus.

Day 6

We arrived in Arequipa from Nasca last night on an overnight bus where I slept on and off for 10 hours. I had a dream all my teeth fell out and mia and her mom tried to help me pick them all up. Even then the dentist wasn't open till monday so I couldn't get any help and had no teeth. I woke up so relieved to feel my teeth. Remember to be thankful for them everyday.

Arequipe is a lovely and looks like Europe to me with old cathedrals and buildings. Home to about 1.5 million. I spent a few hours wandering about on the cobblestone roads and looking at the beautiful volcanoes and mountains surrounding the town while soaking up the sun at 2,400M. Opted out of a trip to visit a different mummy.

Later went go carting and got laped by everyone the first time. No helmets or seatbelts required. It was a tad scary and the car behind me in line just started smoking like crazy at one point. Its the second thing (first being dune buggy) that would not make canadian safety standards.

Peru is crazy cheap and my favourite part of today was that: after a lot of asking to see the menu, and bartering with the restaurants, for 3.80 canadian I got: a quinoa salad with cheese and vegetable, an alcoholic drink, a main course of delicious fried rice and a caramel and coconut covered crepe. Could've been cheaper, but not bad.

Now im off to bed, belly filled with food. Goodnight

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