Ariquipa and Chivay

Had a night bus yesterday from Nasca and arrived in Arequipa thismorning about 7. Yesterday i went to the Nasca cemetary i was telling you about...crazy!! it was just a huge lpot of desert, with a few little flax roofed buildings covering pits full of mummies. they were all really well preserved because the desert is so dry...they only get 6mm rain a year. But in the space between all the huts there were just rocks and then bones scattered everwhere from graverobbers looting the place. there were skulls and stuff just laying around. It was so weird. In new zealand stuff like that would be in a museum or something! the mummies were all very creapy. i dont even know what to say about them... they were all buried in the seated position facing east and lots had really long dreads. There were baby tombs and in one there was a parrot buried with its owner. Ill put photos up sometime , it just takes so long to upload them so im a little behind. but after the cemetary we had a quick look at the little museum there, where they had the two best preserved mummies... one was 1500years old, and still had all its features. Creapy. then there was a baby wrapped in cloth. After than we made our way back to the hotel, saw the sunset on the way past, just. Then hung around at the hotel with Natalie and Pat, the two new girls on the tour. Theyr the most fun! glad that theyve joined us. Then we went to a observatory to see a lecture about the theories behind the nasca lines. It was really really interesting but twas just so hot in the little room that i couldnt concentrate after about 40minutes. Then we had dinner at the hotel resturant.theres an amazing entree that is avocado stuffed with potato salad, ill make it for you, mum sometime! so good.then caught our night bus. there were some spectacular views but i was just too tired.
Had a rest in the morning before a breakfast at an amazing café , i had banana pancakes, the best kind. The ladies that worked there were so lovely. Then we had a city tour in the afternoon. This consisted of a walk around the plazas and lunch at a great resturant, a 3 course meal for 12 soles...around 7 NZ. There was a salad that tasted like heaven , it had broad beans and onion and tomato and all kinds of deliscous things. then an omlet.
Claires bag got stolen at that point. That was a downer. at least her passport and credit card and things werent in it. but her camera and Mp3 player were. She and nicky went to the police station and the rest of us walked to a lookout. we never found it and i went home coz my neck was sore . Had pizza for dinna at a great bar that had happy hour two for 1 Pisco sours. so i had one of those too. then went home and had an early night.


ok gona be quick coz its cold here, at the moment im in a tiny internet place and its freezing cold outside...we are at 2700metres above sealevel..i think. and my fingers are numb...but i bought gloves today! and i need a hat. hopefully im going to get pizza for dinner hehe. ooo my fingers...sorry for the spelling :PWe left at830 thismorn and it was the best bus ride ever..we sung all kinds of hits from the 90s that i havnt heard in ages, and we had cocoa tea and beautiful chocolate, coz theres a milk factory in Arquipa so its proper milk , not that powder stuff you get everywhere else. i patted a dog today. it was sooo cute i couldnt help myself. and i saw donkeys . and i climbed on ruins and i built an offering for the gods in the mountains..it was really amature though, it was a pile of rocks but it toppled when i walked away. We went up to 5000metres today, really neuseating, got dizzy but then had cocoa. i saw a kid with a baby llama. and it went on the road and he was trying to pull it off but it was as big as him..his name was wilber and i gave him my pencil. we saw a rabbit. and ...what else...no flamingos yet, but i cant wait. smells like meat here, theres markets outside. i had a huge conversation with a lady at one of the stalls...in spanish!! and in the hills today there was a lady herding sheep and she came up over the hill and was laughing, she was themost beautiful person! then we tried to talk to her for a while but we arnt very good at spanish. so big day. and tomorriow hopefully ill see condors at Condor Cross. exciting!!!