Leaving the Big Smoke

After our Pamper Day, we were picked up by our guide, along with 8 others, in a mini bus. Our excellent drivers name was Paul. We headed out through Arequipa's outer areas to the Colca Valley. This is an agricultural region that was terraced in pre-Inka times with life and farming following pre-industrial methods - not a tractor in sight Mike 🚜 We visited a village market and got to mingle with the locals.

 

 

Peru's Highway 1 - single lanes all the way

 

Wildlife has the right of way

 

 

...then one day a TALL stranger came to town 🎶

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just for you boys, note the ute😂

 

 

 

Alpaca 

 

Peru has over 300 different kinds of potatoes

 

 

A Peruvian food hall

 

 

 

Potato growing competion

 

 

 

 

Time to go home...

...and we checked into our hotel, had a trek through the fields behind it and finished the day with a visit to some volcanic hot springs and an Alpaca BBQ.

I met her in the field and she was very proud to show me her 3 skirts - the best one was kept at the bottom

 

 

Edible front garden

 

 

 

 Spot the hat - our fellow travellers