Archive for February, 2006

Arequipa

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

We are now in Arequipa, the second largest city in Peru. This is really a nice city but we canŽt wait to get out of here. Read on to see why. HereŽs a nice shot of the main plaza.

I made it to the top of a 6000m (19,000 feet) peak! [...]

Lake Titicaca

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Yesterday and today we toured Lake Titicaca. We stayed the night on an island with a local Quechua speaking family. Fortunately, our house parents knew some Spanish.

First stop on our boat ride was to one of the floating islands of the Uros people. We got to [...]