Okay so its been a few days since I've landed and so far so good! I've met some really nice travellers and the latest 2 I've met are from none other than Toronto!! Met them this afternoon while I was mindlessly wondering the streets of Arequipa looking for a Spanish school. I found one and I think I'm gonna enroll. It seems quite professional and it costs about $15 for 2 hrs. The bus ride from Lima to Arequipa was 17 hrs long omggggg but it surprisingly flew by and the view was stunning. Exiting the city and congestion of lima, we drove along this long road that was never ending and on my left were stretches of
mountains that kept on going on as long as the road. Every now and then I would see these small communities that appeared very slum like and couldn't help but wonder what kind of life the people had living there. Then sun fell and the slums all lit up and it appeared to go quite deep into the mountains. During the day though they had all these colourful roofs but appeared to be held up by wooden legs, the barest of the bare forms of shelter. Anyway I ended up eating dinner on the bus and it was surprisingly yum! I had a little dish of rice, green mash potatoes and a tiny bit of chicken. I met this lady from Finland who had been travelling for 10 months and told me it has sort of turned into a lifestyle. I was amazed but I don't know if I could do that. The bus was pretty cool, the seats reclined like 55° and in front there was this platform that you pull down and you rest your legs on it so it's the closest thing to being flat. It was awkward cause I had to sit with this fairly overweight Peruvian man and when I was trying to sleep on my side, he was doing the same and our bums were like pressed up against each other ha-ha! When I arrived I hadn't booked any accommodation yet so I took a cab into the city and went to the first dorm hostel that I found and omg it is so not up to date...I'm the only guest there in a dorm for 4 people and the owner speaks no English so I am gonna be leaving tmr :p anywho that's all that's been happening so far ..trying to speak some simple Spanish every now and then but my god it is so hard not being able to speak or comprehend what is being spoken to me and just looking like a complete moron :( now I am sitting here in the Canadian couples hostel watching Harry potter, not really the way I wanna be spending my Saturday evening but I know I will be having some crazy canyon adventures in a little while! So the first 2 pics are of Arequipa, the first is from the city center and the second is of my hostel. Then we have more pics from Lima. One of them is of a local market that I bought some fresh juices at!
Saturday, 5 September 2015
Sept 5-15
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