{"id":397,"date":"2011-03-04T05:31:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T15:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/2011\/03\/la-cuerva-de-las-ladrones"},"modified":"2011-03-04T05:31:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T15:31:13","slug":"la-cuerva-de-las-ladrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/2011\/03\/la-cuerva-de-las-ladrones","title":{"rendered":"La Cuerva de las Ladrones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday March 4th-<\/p>\n<p>Last night I took the students to a discotheque that Malena (of the Spanish school) told me was hip with all the young&#8217;uns in Arequipa. The students reported a much higher incidence of balding middle-aged men. Ha! Too bad.<\/p>\n<p>Today everyone packed up and moved out of their homestays and (staff) hostel in preparation for our night bus to Cusco. We did internet&#8217;ing and last-minute city exploring. Julie and Ingmar took Benji, who&#8217;s been dying for a good climb, to the lock rock gym, the Cuerva del Mono (\u00a1que divertido!):<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58489710@N07\/5528273502\/'><img src='http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5096\/5528273502_caec69f5c6_b.jpg' border='0' width='480' height='849' style='margin:5px'><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nUnfortunately, Benji&#8217;s luck took a turn for the worse at the bus station. He left his camera out on a chair and a team of four female thieves distracted him (and the rest of group) while one of them &#8220;bumped into&#8221; the chair and grabbed the camera. (I wasn&#8217;t there\u2014this is the story I got.) <\/p>\n<p>Benji was thankful that this happened near the end of the trip. The camera was covered by traveler&#8217;s insurance, but there was no tourist police to file a report in the bus station, and police from one district (i.e. Cusco) won&#8217;t create a report for a crime that happened in another (i.e. Arequipa), so Benji is SOL in terms of getting compensated. Bummer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday March 4th- Last night I took the students to a discotheque that Malena (of the Spanish school) told me was hip with all the young&#8217;uns in Arequipa. The students reported a much higher incidence of balding middle-aged men. Ha! Too bad. Today everyone packed up and moved out of their homestays and (staff) hostel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}