 Vicuñas in the wild, in Aguarda Blanca Nature Reserve |
 For a hundred kilometres in any direction there is only desert. The days are warm and the air clear, except for the dust that hangs over the valley like a gauze curtain. Towering above Arequipa, the recently active volcano Mt Misti, 5,822 metres (19,100 feet) high, looks strangely out of place. At the foot of the mountain, Arequipeños go about their daily lives in sub-tropical conditions, despite the devastation caused by the earthquake of early 2001.
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