La Casa Della Mamma
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Colca Canyon day 1
We got up, had breakfast and were ready to leave at 8.30am. We got on our private minibus and met our driver Coco and local guide Winfredo and set off for the Colca Canyon. There was a toilet on our bus but Winfredo told us it was just for pee pee not poo poo!
It wasn´t too long until we got into the Salinas y Aguado Blanco national …
What a journey
... arranged to meet up in the main square at 9 am to have some breakfast. Whilst getting ready in the hostel, I befriended a girl from Ireland, Mel. I invited her along and we met Tom in the square and guess where we went for breakfast????? McDonald's!! Yum Yum not!
Surya had stayed at their hostel as she wasn't well, but we went back to find her as we needed to make plans of what we were going to do for the next couple of days. We ...
Coming down at last
... circling on the thermals maybe 20 feet above us. With every piece of good fortune comes an equal and opposite piece of bad fortune (Newton’s Law of Motion). Anyone who has been to Brighton or a few years ago Trafalgar Square will know that birds play a hugely amusing game amongst themselves to see how many humans they can defacate on. With pigeons and seagulls this may be no more than a minor annoyance, but with condors you are talking about something the size of ...
Condors, Convents and Canyons: Arequipa
... couple and a guy from Holland who'd been volunteering in Cuzco. Their guide, Roy, had been snoozing in the front of the bus but soon woke up and was ready to go.
The bus continued along the road to a viewing point where the tourists could stand at eye-level with the condors flying over the canyon below. It looked like a long way down. Soon the group was finding out just how far down as they started to walk down the side of the cliff.
Colca ...
Rest and Relaxation
... to our room to watch another film. Seeing as we had enjoyed Blood Diamond so much the night before, we decided to stick to the African conflict theme and watch Hotel Rwanda. The film was great, and we really enjoyed it, but we did feel a little bummed out at the end. We returned to the kitchen to use the internet, which unfortunately didn’t work in our room, where again we got chatting to Ciara and Alexandra. Around 8pm the girls headed off to bed, as ...
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