I like to explore and tell descriptive stories about places. I also make jewelry, music and mixed-media art.
Arequipa is a beautiful city, from the volcanoes sitting to the east above it, to the iconic sillar volcanic rock churches, monasteries, and other buildings in the centro. Most of the grey-white sillar material came from Chachani, the craggy, more northern volcano. Even the hostels are sillar with arches, giving a gothic, sonorous feel to […]
Read More Arequipa – the ´white´cityFirst, I suggest to anyone planning to travel to Arequipa or the south of Peru from Lima, to go by bus. It’s a 17 hour ride on the Panamerica Sur, which spans the length of South America, following the rocky Pacific coast along most of the way. Several companies have buses that leave in late […]
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arianna's creative travels 