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Getting started in Peru!

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I am in Peru with my friends!!!! I had a really nice time in Iquique, very simple. I worked all day and then walked along the beach during my midday breaks. It was nice. On Friday I got picked up at 5am to go to the Iquique airport for my first flight to Santiago. Then I hung out in the airport lounge and ate some tasty food. My second flight was from Santiago to Lima. The lounge in Lima was not as good but they had some fruit and dessert. My flight to Arequipa from Lima got a bit delayed but nothing horrible. Then I got to Arequipa and took an Uber to the AirBnB to meet my friends! It ended up being about 19 hours of travel but so worth it. We all talked for a while, and it was really nice.  On Saturday we got up and went to this super cute cafe called Oso (which means bear in Spanish). Then we went to Santa Catalina Monastery which has been around since 1579. It used to house 500 people and girls would go there at age 12 to be students first and then eventually become nuns. It wa...
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Santiago and the Atacama Desert

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Hello! I am currently in Iquique which is in Northern Chile. This is my last stop before heading to Peru! This past week I was in Santiago and then I spent the weekend in San Pedro de Atacama. In Santiago I really did not do too much. I lucked out and had a full apartment to myself so I enjoyed the space and I also enjoyed big city restaurants. I got Indian food one night and brought it back to the apartment and ate it while watching TV. I also got Taco Bell!! I was feel nervous after my last Taco Bell experience in Costa Rica but this Taco Bell was so excellent. I got a bean burrito (literally called bean burrito not burrito de frijoles), some small, fried cheese empanadas, and french fries covered in cheese. It was all so delicious. Different from Taco Bell at home but still good.  Also in Santiago I visited the Museum of Fine Arts. It was nice! My favorite exhibit was a room filled with nightstands. Each nightstand was different and had a different lamp on it as well as differen...
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Buenos Aires and Iguazu Falls

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Okay now for the second blog post! Like I said, my travels to Buenos Aires went really smooth and I arrived to my Airbnb in the evening. I had been really excited about this Airbnb stay because I was getting my own studio apartment! I hadn't been in a studio in so long because I have mostly just been renting rooms and sharing bathrooms and kitchens with other people. This was my own full kitchen, bathroom, and sleeping space. Insane! It was so nice to not have to worry about other people and to just get to do my own things. Sunday I was pretty tired, so I just went to bed. On Monday I had to work in the morning and then I decided to do a little personal walking tour of Buenos Aires. I had several hours free because some classes had been cancelled so I went all over. I took a bus from near my Airbnb to the Argentine National Congress building which was essentially the starting point of the Avenida de Mayo which is a long street with lots of historically significant buildings. At the...
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