Adventure BUS

Today I went on an adventure. I took a little excursion to check out the area, where I will be working all April-June. The area is called Sabandia and is about 40 minutes out from the city center of Arequipa.

As I realized, the first adventure was already to find the right bus. First we (I and my auntie) walked up to a street called Salavery, where most busses leave. This wasn't to bad, cuz it's only about a 10 minute walk from our house. When we got there, we asked this really nice police lady where the bus leaves. She pointed in a direction and said, only 4 cuadras up and then take a left and walk about 1 cuadra more. So we did. Only when we got there, there was no bus anywhere. So luckily there were two other police men right there (they are everywhere for some reason). We asked them and they told us to walk about 4 cuadras more. This happened to us even a third time, before we finally got to the right spot (this is  after about 40 minutes of walking).

The second adventure was getting on the right bus, even when standing in the right spot. Busses work slightly different here, than they do in Switzerland. It's sort of a non-stop bus. Literally! So basically you just have to read their signs (of which they have like 10 or so on the windshield), which says where they go to. Next you have to be quick enough to hop on the bus. You are lucky if the bus stops for 5s or so. Normally it's more like a slowing down and you just have to jump on.

So finally we were on the bus to Sabandia. I'm telling you, I was so relieved when we finally got a seat. Haha, these bus drivers are kinda scary- well more their way of driving I guess. But somehow it works for them. So finally arrived in Sabandia we got out and looked around. It was pretty amazing, cuz for a 40 minute bus ride you only pay about 40 cents! Happy savings!!

We quickly checked, where the orphanage is. It's right next to the 'bus stop' - YAY!! Then we took a walk to the old molino. As we realized pretty soon - this was adventure number three today. We passed some beautiful country side, but the road - well - I'm not sure if you could call it a road anymore, was slightly broken. In one part the road has turned into a creek, because it had rained so much in the past couple of weeks.

But in the end we got to the molino and enjoyed the beautiful gardens. Oh and the question for today: Do you know the difference between an Alpaca and a Lama?