Backlog: Final Days in Peru to First Days in Buenos Aires

It's been a while since I've posted, so here's a quick rundown of what's been happening.

The end of Peru was delightful. Arequipa was the last city we were in, and it was delightful. At the time, I had remarked that it was my favourite (and largest) city we had seen in America del Sur. I find that the more people you meet (in more than a casual way) the more you feel like the city you met them in is 'awesome', so there may be a bit of bias here. So what happened? Here are the coles notes:

1) The food was awesome and cheap (even for Peru standards!).
2) We went river rafting and did a minor cliff jump in the process. Our guide was the first guy I had a real (mostly) Spanish conversation with and my first friend for partying that was a for-real Latin American.
3) We went mountain biking down El Misti, with quite the cool guide. This is a mountain that's rolls right into the city of Arequipa, we're looking at about 4400m to about 2500m. Stupendous. The guide has some great stories too. (Un)fortunately he was too excited and fluent in English for us to really practice our Spanish with.

After Arequipa, we (foolishly?) decided to bus through Chile to Buenos Aires. The short of it is that we spent around 60 hours on buses, broken up by a night in Arica and Santiago for dinner. On the plus side, we earned passport stamps for Chile!

We've been in Buenos Aires, Argentina for a full week now and I have plenty to say about it, but I'll save it for later. I will say this though, CAD $3 bottles of wine are more than twice as good as CAD $1.50 bottles of wine.

There is a severe drought of pictures from Chile (understandably) and Buenos Aires (less understandably), but here's some more Peru for you:

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