From sunny Arequipa, Peru

And sunny it is, 360 days per year. Fortunately we choose sunny days :-).
Arrived yesterday from Nasca in an overnight Ormeno Royal Class Bus. Only tourists can afford it (15 EUR for 8 hours), and the reclining seats put KLM World Business Class to shame. So much for good old KLM.
Nasca was nice. Foggy in the morning and we feared for our sobrevuelo - flight over - the Nasca Lines. But the skies cleared at noon, and suddenly at 14:00 we were shoved into a 6 seater with a gung-ho pilot. 45 minutes over the lines and saw them all. Paper bags were almost necessary.The lines were amazing and spectacular. What a sight!
The Casa de Mi Abuela Hotel (my grandmother`s house) was very welcoming, and we went straight to the Plaze the Armas, that must be the most beautiful in Peru.The Sta. Catalina Convent is the other world class site. Amazingly colorfull and picturesque. Halas, no pictures as all PCs here are Win98, so no USB connection. Maybe in Cusco. Next we saw the Recoleta Convent. With a great library with original Erasmus copies.
Juanita, the Andes Ice Maiden, was the last we visited before this report. Discovered some years ago on Ampato Volcano: a Noble Inca girl in full dress, sacrified some 500 years ago and preserved in the bitter cold on the top of the mountain. The museum is top, but the sight of the girl in her see-trough fridge is a little lugubrious.Good she did not know at the time she would be displayed like she is now, many years later.
OK, this text already survived one PC crash, so more after our Colca Canyon trip starting tomorrow!Mail is welcome at Sanders normal email address at wxs.nl
Ger is hooked on Pisco Sour!