Sunday, July 12, 2009

Arequipa Pt 1

Hey All,

How's everyone going?? I do want to know, but obviously i wont find out for a while, so here is what we have been doing.

We left Cusco the night after our Machu Picchu trail, because it was our only chance to make it through the road blocks surrounding Cusco. Even though we left early our bus was still forced to stop outside the city of Arequipa when we arrived the next morning and we had to walk for around an hour to get past all of the road blocks so we could jump in the back of a ute and get a lift into the actual city.

The first thing we did when we arrived was find a hostel which we could work at so we could stay for free. We rocked up at The Point hostel and were welcomed immiediately so we decided to stay. Steve is working in the bar every night and I am (supposed to be) working in reception. Steve works realy hard every night, whereas I have done only a bit of actual reception work and plenty of shopping (for the hostel though, not me...).
Carolina is a Peruvian girl the same age as us who is working here as well. She and I had the awesome job of planning a tropical party a couple of days ago for the hostel to celebrate the re-opening of their hot tub (it wasnt actually warm at all on the night but the party was still good).

Steve here now. We half wrote this a week or soago and forgot about it. So ill update you all in a sec..

cya

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