Going condor sighting

The bus stop in Arequipa is more like the New York City stock exchange. Everyone at the ticket counters leans over waving tickets, shouting, trying to get you to buy your bus ticket with them. It´s loud and quite exhilirating! I always get nervous before I get to a bus station because you never know what you are going to get. Some are outside, crowded, sketchy. While others are nice, quiet, and have airconditioning. Ya never know. This one is WILD. We are about to go to Chivay which is a city close to the Canyon De Colca. Should take about 3 hours which really means 4 maybe 5 hours in Peruvian time. Canyon de colca is twice as deep as our grand canyon and the home to a large condor family!!! Should be fuuuun! We are going to hike down into the canyon to spend the night.

Last night we went to THE coolest pizza restaurant I have ever been to. Uhhh. Not only was the wine flowing and the pizza delicious... it had the best ambiance. The inside was gray rock with writing all over the walls and arched ceilings, felt like a dungeon. The first piece of grafiti I noticed was the Burning Man symbol that said ¨BM06¨below it. That was my first year at burning man and there is was writen on the wall. It JUMPED OUT at me. Anyway, back to the ambiance... there were three basket looking chandeliers that looked morocan of sorts. It was a small low lit room with a wood buring pizza oven in the back corner. All of the tables were old thick wooden tables with benches instead of chairs, with colorful placemats lining the tables. I want to go back when we get back to Arequipa. We drank way too much wine and woke up this morning with purple lips.

We also went to a museum yesterday called Le Museo de Santuarios which houses a 500 year old body that was found in 1995 on the top of a snow-capped volcano in the surrounding area. They have found 12 of these bodies in Peru over the years and they are all in pretty good condition for being 500 years old... thank you ice. Anyway that was interesting and informative and creeepy at the same time. Ok, gotta catch the bus!!! Ciao