I spent two days (really enough) to visit Arequipa, the second largest city of Pery, in the South, at the feet of two huge volcanos (around 600m high).
It's a nice colonial town called the "ciudad blanca" because of the colour of the volcanic stone used for the building. The weather there is always awesome (nine month without almost a cloud...) which really suited me after the heavy rain in cusco, but make this town very dusty and contaminated.Here I met Orlandao, a Peruvian, who teachs french at the Alliance Francaise, and many other turist on my 3 days trek to the Colca Cañon.
It's located at 60 kms from Arequipa, and they say that it's the second deepest cañon in the world (the first one is also Peruvian. It's very touristic mainly because of a place called Cruz del Condor where we can effectively see these creatures from very close.
It was a nice walk, in a very desertic area (total contrast coming from Cusco)
THe most impressive being indeed, the kimd of "resort" at the bottom of the cañon, akind of oasis in the midlle of desrtical mountains, with swimming pools...yes so artificial but so great.
I met a catalan couple there, who came with me to the titicaca afterwards, and a nice french girl, Delphine. Finally I'm socializing !
