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Travel Blogs from Colca Valley, Peru
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The Motorcycle Diaries....Part 2
This is a top pick! ... going to be in South America. My last visit to Cusco in August of 2006 took me and five friends west through the Sacred Valley on motorcycles....so that's what I came here to do again. Ride! This time, I have a passenger since I ...
Surprise in the Sacred Valley
This is a top pick! ... donkeys herding sheep and alpacas, to the Salinas, or salt pans. On the way, I stopped to take a picture looking down the valley at beautifully plowed plots and a resting cow. A young girl who had followed us and then walked ahead to position herself ...
The Motorcycle Diaries - the journey begins
... ...apparently though, the times had changed and it was only doable from 4 to 5. Not to worry, Id go and visit the Sacred Valley on the way, stopping at Olantaytambo and Pisaq, 2 sites of Inca ruins, which I luckily had managed to acquire free tickets for ...
Masonary work of the Gods
... play the tune "PAN PAN PAN PAN" over and over again on grand, thumping speakers in this once tranquil sacred valley, the propaganda messages disturbing everyone within a 100m radius. Some of the local’s don’t understand what they ...
Donde esta el bano?
6 hour bus trip to Colca Valley. Just what a sick girl needs. Stopped in restaurant in Altiplano at 4500 meters. Too much for Sal who was sick or asleep for the rest of the journey. She missed all the beautiful scenery, vicqunas, ...
Mike Saves Kitten From Alpaca
... like for such long periods of time and having to go where other people tell us to go...so we'll see... Getting to Colca Valley isn't very convenient on the public bus (or so we have been told), so that's why we decided to do the tour. We ...
Flight of the Condor
After shopping around at different tour companies, we decided on a company called Giardino that offered a 2-day tour to the Colca Valley. At 7:30am on the 28th we were picked up from our inn to start the tour. There were just 3 others in the tour van - a ...
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