Today we continue to stay at the awesome Costa Del Sol Hotel (part of the Wyndam Group) and get three dollar taxis to the Plaza da Armas in the Centro of town.
We had a nice breakfast in the hotel, and headed off, with a list of things to do, one of which was to get a Peruvian SIM card for my phone. I have a SIM card for every country so far, and they rarely cost more than ten dollars each, but allow us to navigate via our phones and look stuff up. I wanted a Claro one, but they were out of town and chose a Bitel branded one, that required them to photograph my passport and take a finger print! Still it had unlimited data and worked a treat.
We then looked in a few shops and went for coffee on a roof top where we could see the three Andean Mountains immediately adjacent to the city. They are beautiful and about 6,700 m high with snow on the top. The coffee place was at the old Spanish cloisters and the stone carving was classic Spanish and particularly fine.
We had a high grade lunch at Cirqua which is a restaurant in a Relais and Chateau Hotel in the city centre, built in 1574 as a religous centre. Lunch was unusually good and quite different to what we would have in Australia, mostly built around Spanish food with lots of corn items, and some duck.
We came back to the hotel for a bit, then Sheryle went back to town as my stomach was a little upset. Later I joined her, again on the roof top for late night cocktails. We had quite a day in Arequipa.
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