I
woke up to discover that I'd suffered pretty substantial sunburn to
my face. Turns out snow reflects UV – another thing 5 years of
physics hadn't taught me. Red-faced I headed to a nearby bakery to
breakfast on delicious bread stuffed with “dulce de leche”
(something between caramel and condensed milk); thanks to Christina
for pointing me in the right direction. The Aussies only had a couple
of days left before they were off to Ecuador so we decided to try and
squeeze in a trip to nearby Colca Canyon (the second deepest canyon
in the world – only nearby Cotahuasi
Canyon is 335m deeper). Bypassing the tour agencies and opting to
head to the canyon ourselves, we lunched on ceviche (fresh raw fish
marinated in citrus juices with sweet potato) and headed to the
bus terminal to buy our tickets to Cabanaconde – the village
closest to the canyon. Our bus would leave at 3am tomorrow (a
salesman from one of the bus companies said that if we left any later
“the rivers would be too high” which was ominous to say the
least) so after a quick wander around Arequipa, which made a pleasant
first impression, I headed for an early night.
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