Peru Day 18: Arequipa to Lima

The pills seem to be working and feeling alot better with the confidence to go out for a last look around Arequipa town centre. Being a Sunday nearly everything was shut but it was only 10:45am and we predicted an 11am opening after the church-goers got chucked out.

We got accosted by the tourist police and were given a pamphlet on personal security with some quite bad English translation. Found a cafe for cold drinks over looking the Plaza de Armas (main square). Kerry ordered a dodgy meringue/pavlova turning out to be a hot flan, hot strawberry and whipped (from a can) cream. Three single decker buses with Metropolitan Transport De Barcelona turned up to collect a mass of disabled church goers, all of them getting hassled by ice-cream sellers etc.

When the shops did open we bought a few souvenirs and wandered around a bit more. As we headed back to the hotel we were approached by a beggar who had no hands! He just held out his stumps asking for spare change - where do you put the coins? Try and balance them on his wrists? Be cruel and throw it to the ground? Out of the weirdness of the situation we walked on, poor guy!

Jetted back to Lima for an overnight stay at Casa Andina. Although we had to be up ridicously early we went down to the hotel's swimming pool for a dip. Unfortuantely, the pool heater was out of order but that didn't stop Kerry (I bottled it). Next we tried the sauna, dry and humid. which I've decided I'll probably never do again as the heat and claustrophobia gets to me.