OK. Change of plans. We were supposed to fly to Puno today, the town outside of Lake Titicaca, but apparently there are massive protests going on there. The miners are upset about a mine that the government wants to build and so they are protesting to the point that they are interfereing with roads, hotels and even the airport. SO, instead we flew to Arequipa and were taken to an area called Colca Canyon. We didn´t do much today, but will see the canyon tomorrow including a condor habitat (condors are very special to Peruvians). One cool thing about today... Because there was´t much for us to do, we were dropped off at our hotel at 4pm. It´s beautiful and is home to hot springs! We ended up going to the spa, sitting in the hot spring pool there (in our underwear because we didn´t bring swimsuits!). It had a view of the Andes, the Colca River and grazing alpacas. We then had massages to get rid of the pain from all of our hiking. It was awesome! I couldn´t have asked for a better detour in our trip!
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