This is the bathroom at one of the stops along the way. It has a thatched roof. I have another picture of the inside. There are some interesting things here about bathrooms. First you usually need to pay to use it and if you pay you get some paper. Then, they don't have a toilet seat on them. Now that I understand that, I am not surprised when I see it. Some of the stalls have doors on them. There may be running water to wash with, but never towells. Anyway, this one was neat because it was thatched.
This is a street in the Convent. It has houses within it where the nuns who were from rich families lived. They were the second child of the family and the family was rich. They gave a dowery to the convent and then built their daughter a house to live in within the convent. They said at one time there were 81 houses for nuns here. They call it the city within in the city. The streets all have names from Spain and the houses are built out of the Sillar rock found around the city. There was an earthquake some time ago that destroyed many of the houses. They were built around 1750. Not very convenient even then.
This is the laundry area for the nuns. They had a hole in the bottem of each half jar that they would put a carrot into to plug it and hold the water. Then they would block the water trof with their hand to fill their barrel. When thru they pulled the carrot out and the water went into an underground water drainage system. Very clever of them.
This little lady is dressed in native dress for the area of Arequepa. She has on the traditional vest, skirt and hat. We tried to buy a skirt, it was 100 soles which is really only about $33., but add the vest to that and the hat and it was just too much for me. I did get a hat. They do the stitching on these items with an old black sewing machine in a dark room. It is amazing that they turn out so nice. Some of the skirts are velvet with the stitching on them. They were really beautiful.
This is Steve overlooking the agricultural area down the middle of Arequipa. It was so green and pretty. So unlike Lima. We have no green in Lima. There were animals and fields of veggies and feed for the cattle.
This is the bathroom at one of the stops along the way. It has a thatched roof. I have another picture of the inside. There are some interesting things here about bathrooms. First you usually need to pay to use it and if you pay you get some paper. Then, they don't have a toilet seat on them. Now that I understand that, I am not surprised when I see it. Some of the stalls have doors on them. There may be running water to wash with, but never towells. Anyway, this one was neat because it was thatched.
This is a street in the Convent. It has houses within it where the nuns who were from rich families lived. They were the second child of the family and the family was rich. They gave a dowery to the convent and then built their daughter a house to live in within the convent. They said at one time there were 81 houses for nuns here. They call it the city within in the city. The streets all have names from Spain and the houses are built out of the Sillar rock found around the city. There was an earthquake some time ago that destroyed many of the houses. They were built around 1750. Not very convenient even then. 
This is the laundry area for the nuns. They had a hole in the bottem of each half jar that they would put a carrot into to plug it and hold the water. Then they would block the water trof with their hand to fill their barrel. When thru they pulled the carrot out and the water went into an underground water drainage system. Very clever of them.
This little lady is dressed in native dress for the area of Arequepa. She has on the traditional vest, skirt and hat. We tried to buy a skirt, it was 100 soles which is really only about $33., but add the vest to that and the hat and it was just too much for me. I did get a hat. They do the stitching on these items with an old black sewing machine in a dark room. It is amazing that they turn out so nice. Some of the skirts are velvet with the stitching on them. They were really beautiful.
This is Steve overlooking the agricultural area down the middle of Arequipa. It was so green and pretty. So unlike Lima. We have no green in Lima. There were animals and fields of veggies and feed for the cattle. 
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