We caught a taxi to the bus station for our trip to Arequipa, and for the second time a taxi driver told K he couldn't understand her because she spoke Castellaño (i.e. Spanish from Spain)!
As we were boarding the bus we were videoed by a camera on a tripod, it was a bit strange, we think it was for security purposes (thievery etc.) but over the next 11 hours the bus would stop anywhere and pick up / drop off people on the side of the road - so I'm not exactly sure how useful the video would be. We had great seats at the front on the second floor of the bus, perfect for admiring the view as we left the greener landscapes of the altiplano and entered some quite desolate country.
Around lunch time some women got on the bus and the smell of roast lamb wafted through. It was too much for K who decided she fancied a roast lamb sandwich. She paid up without querying what was on offer and of course was shocked when she received a number of unidentifiable lamb scented objects .... she bailed from this little experiment and managed to get her money back.
It was quite late by the time we arrived in Arequepia as the bus didn't take the direct route, instead we retraced our path back to Juliaca on the shore of Lake Titicaca and then went on to Arequipa from there.
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