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Posted by cazngaz | 8th November 2009

Hi all,

This entry covers our last few weeks in S America before we headed to New Zealand. After leaving Cusco we headed south to Arequipa, nicknamed 'the white city' because of the light coloured volcanic rock many of the citie's colonial buildings are made from. The city was a nice enough place, backed by snowcapped mountains and a volcano (as shown in the pics below), but we didnt really do much here in our few days here other than relax following all the walks and trips we had done in Cusco.

One of the highlights for me of this place was going to visit a museum housing Janita, 'the Ice Princess': a 500+ year mummy of an Inka girl who was a willing child sacrifice to one of the nearby mountains whom th

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