Not in Nasca yet...but soon...
We should be arriving in Nasca on Saturday morning to take a 45 minute flight in a 10 passenger Cesna. Apparently these flight are more thrilling than a Great Adventure roller coaster. They tend to be unstable and safety precautions are not their strongest point!!
We should be fine!
We got to know another part of Peru today, called Arequipa. There is a famed monastery called Santa Catalina that is literally a city within a city. Back about 400 years ago girls as young as 12 yrs old would be sent to become religious martyrs, basically many noble Spanish families would subject one of their daughters to be a part of the convent for the rest of their lives. In many ways this helped the family get closer to heaven. The girls were interned here and literally never left, even the cemetary was within the huge walls surrounding the convent. The only access to the immediate family was between two gates several feet apart. The young girls could not even touch their mothers hand!! In fact the head nun would be present listening to exactly everything the girls would say. This was a pretty amazing place, but the stories of the historic convent were pretty sad. There are still 30 nuns living within the walls but all the rules have changed. They are allowed out 3 times a year and if they eventually decide to leave the convent they are granted that right!
Arequipa has turned out to be one of the nicest cities that we have seen on our entire trip, with at least 10 cathedral like churches in the center alone. Things are good...we are in a bus now and should arrive in Nazca at 7AM on Saturday.
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We should be fine!
We got to know another part of Peru today, called Arequipa. There is a famed monastery called Santa Catalina that is literally a city within a city. Back about 400 years ago girls as young as 12 yrs old would be sent to become religious martyrs, basically many noble Spanish families would subject one of their daughters to be a part of the convent for the rest of their lives. In many ways this helped the family get closer to heaven. The girls were interned here and literally never left, even the cemetary was within the huge walls surrounding the convent. The only access to the immediate family was between two gates several feet apart. The young girls could not even touch their mothers hand!! In fact the head nun would be present listening to exactly everything the girls would say. This was a pretty amazing place, but the stories of the historic convent were pretty sad. There are still 30 nuns living within the walls but all the rules have changed. They are allowed out 3 times a year and if they eventually decide to leave the convent they are granted that right!
Arequipa has turned out to be one of the nicest cities that we have seen on our entire trip, with at least 10 cathedral like churches in the center alone. Things are good...we are in a bus now and should arrive in Nazca at 7AM on Saturday.
Sent by Jeffrey via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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