My last Peruvian day was spend exploring an area of Arequipa that I guess would be a suburb or such. The name of the place is Yanahuara, I imagine that it was it's own town until it and Arequipa grew together.
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| Yanahuara Potted Plants |
Yanahuara is rather pretty, nice architecture and nice landscaping (nice landscaping here is only in isolated areas) and all.
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| Me Posing in an Yanahuara Alley |
Here is my yellow self posing in an alley...
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| Yanahuara Fountain |
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| Deep Fried Pastry Treat in Yanahuara |
A tasty kind of donut treat. The restaurant owners (in the background) must have been five generations of women.
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| Arequipa Mill Museum |
OK — I know that I am losing it — as this mill museum was not the same location, or even probably the same day, but what the hay! This is a restore, water powered flour mill located about an hour outside of Arequipa. The building are made of that volcanic rock and are very light, spacious and beautiful! Since it is a museum it was very nicely decorated and landscaped.
Inside of the mill. You can see one of the stones to the right. The grain went into the hopper above the stone, and a shaft went down through the floor where a water sluice hit a wooden paddle and turned the stone.
Inside the same building. You can just about see the curved roof that all of the buildings that are constructed out of this stone have — very nice!
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| Ancient Old Tree and Water Sluice |
Here is a water channel. There seemed to be three, two went under the building to drive the stones and this one went out and around.
Peru is very religious — and almost all public and private areas have some type of religious display. Almost every building has a metal cross on it's roof.
As I have said — Arequipa has plenty of water! Water is often flowing here, there and everywhere!
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| Arequipa Mill Museum Vendors |
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To be continued — Burning Man and a cemetery...
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