Back in Arequipa!

We got the bus from Copacabana to Arequipa via Puno. It was strange to be arriving back in places we had been before and felt like we new. We just had one night in Arequipa and decided to revisit the nice pizza place we had been to with Beth when we were here before. This time though we got there at 8pm and there was no one else there the whole time we were eating. We were treated to several 80´s classics on the big TV though which was a bonus.

On the way back to our hostel afterwards we crossed the road next to the square which was very quiet with no cars about at all. We were just going into the supermarket for a bottle of water when a Peruvian policewoman stopped me to talk to me. Jodie wondered off oblivious and I figured out the policewoman wanted to see my passport and then she told me to get Jodie back. When we were both there it turned out that we had not crossed the road at the crossing so she had to take down all our details including where we were staying, our passport numbers and then, after she had run back across the road exactly where we had crossed to get her ink, our fingerprints. We weren´t fined which was a surprise as we had been expecting to be but that seemed to just make it all the more pointless. When she had finished she just said thanks and we went on our way. Very strange!