So I moved on Friday and it took me whole day. I bought some respiration pills, extra strong as usual in development countries, which is good if you want to recover fast but it's not good for your body in long term. But that wasn't the only trouble. If things go wrong then they go wrong. Stupid agency had put me on a local bus for second half of a ride and the bus took 3 hours more. I arrived to Arequipa before midnight. And you don't like that feeling being on local bus with local people, coming to a city you never visited. Without any booked hotel and reading guide book about false taxis. Even now second day, I remember every face and emotions in the bus in a preparation of what can go wrong. But as I'm writing this you probably got the point that everything went ok. I took taxi to main square (Plaza de Armas as usual) and jumped to the first hotel I saw. It was called Arequipa suites Plaza. Price of 80 sol (25 usd, 600 czk) was okaish as I just wanted to relax and properly recover. I should spot in advance that there is a work on a square in front of hotel which doesn't stop even during the night. Czech government should learn from that at least on highway constructions ;-) Earplugs saved me from pneumatic drill and I finally slept properly.
It was clear that I couldn't see the Colca canyon (2nd deepest after Grand canyon).I took an easy start of a day along the perfect breakfast with view over Plaza de Armas from hotel restaurant. Then I was siting on the internet and just laying in a bed still feeling cold. I went for a lunch at china place in the afternoon. I don't remember having better Chinese food. 15 sol (4,5usd, 110 czk) and in general I was buttering up my sick day. Later I went to Santa Catalina Monastery not just to eat and sleep. I'm not big fan of indoor expositions, but everybody was recommending this one. It's huge monastery from 16th century. Colorful, preserved place. It had some atmosphere, but nothing special to me. Finished day with a cake and now on a night bus to Ica to finally meet Ivos.
I was very careful with bus decision this time. I took premium cama (160 degree position) on wide leather seats - 3 in a row. It was direct bus to Lima, but I got exception to stop in Ica as long as I pay full price. Company was called Julsa and price was 100 sol (30 usd, 750 czk). Bus was very fast and came actually much earlier to my destination than expected. Funny fact that every bus here has speedometer display in passenger area and display very often shown exceeded speed limit (90 km/h). Bus didn't even stopped somewhere as lunch and breakfast was served. Unfortunatelly there was no Wi-Fi this time as on other buses. I actually found out that many people were waiting for a bus without a ticket. And if there were free places they would go in. Something like last minute for free places and I understood people paid half. And there were actually many people traveling like this.
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