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Arequipa is one of the biggest cities in Peru and you are bound to visit it when you want to travel onwards to Chile or want to visit the Colca Canyon, one of the deepest canyons in the world. Arequipa is often named as the prettiest city in Peru, but we disagreed with that and preferred Cusco. That is not to say we didn’t have an enjoyable time in Arequipa. We visited Arequipa for two nights, after arriving really early with the night bus from Cusco. Effectively we had two days to spend in Arequipa and we found that sufficient time, given that you don’t visit the Colca Canyon. In this blog I will give you an update regarding the things we did in Arequipa.

Visiting wine regions all over the world is one of my favorite things to do. Argentina has several wine regions, but Mendoza was the one I wanted to visit most. I had a really romantic idea of Mendoza, didn’t even know it was the name of a really large city in that region. Luckily we had the best stay in Mendoza, so no disappointments this time around. The Mendoza area is the perfect area for a longer stay; we loved the wineries, the foodie/fine dining culture, the climate, the kind people that live there and the amazing views of snow capped mountains overlooking the sunny vineyards.

Machu Picchu has been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember. When Hielke and I got into a relationship, he had already been there and I think that’s the reason I didn’t go sooner. To be able to visit Machu Picchu has been one of the main reasons for choosing South America for our travels, so you can say the expectations were really high. The fact that you have to do quite a lot of organizing and spend a lot of money only adds to the high expectations. In this blog I will explain whether my expectations were met, the blog title gives a hint regarding the outcome already 😉