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Yanque
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Heaven at 4800 meters - Colca Canyon
This is a top pick! ... are quite shy but friendly and very kind and thoughtful. Everywhere we go we are learning how important community is here in Peru. Many places half a person's income goes to the community, half of what is left goes to their family and ...
Coca Leaves and Condors
One of the main reasons for visiting Arequipa is its proximity to Colca Canyon, a huge rift in the landscape twice as deep as the Grand Canyon. Colonial and traditional cultures collide; the many towns dotted throughout the valley bear distinctly spanish ...
Trek del Colca, journee 1
... soleil tombe vite et nous finnissons le trajet de nuit. Nous trouvons un petit hostel de quelques chambres, la Casa turistica. Yanque est une jolie petite ville qui semble riche avec une immense place principale et une eglise coloniale. Nous nous faisons ...
Colca Canyon
... 'es, suivie par un plouf dans une piscine d´eau themale, cette fois moins peuplée que celles de Baños en Equateur. De retour à Yanque, où se trouvait notre hostal, nous nous sommes payés le meilleur repas préparé maison au Pérou: soupe de quinoa, ...
Day 34 (Colca Canyon)
... and I are not staying in Chivay, the rest all get dropped off at their hotels/hostels, and we are then taken to Yanque, 8km away, where we are dropped off at our residencial We have taken the more interesting option of staying with a Peruvian ...
A sleepy town
... Yanque, more tourisy and it has more of everything. After dropping off some people who want to stay in Chivay, we continue to Yanque, a sleepy village. It is a very small village with 500 people for its population, but it has the best view of the canyon. ...
Colca, Coca, and Condors
... other hear and how happy they are with seemingly few amenities for some, like electricity and running water. So our hotel in Yanque in the valley was beautiful, complete with its own resident alpaca, jacuzzi, sauna, pool table and fusball (in great ...
Colca Canyon: Dramatic, Gorgeous, but not Deepest
... Picchu, we were itching to hit the trail again. We found the perfect destination for a challenging hike in the southwest corner of Peru, a few hours east of Arequipa. Touted as being twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, the Canon de Colca is indeed ...
15°37′S, 71°38′W
Coca tea, coca leaves, green teeth, numb tongue, no altitude sickness Vacunas, Alpacas, Llamas, Flamingoes, Condors Trekking Hot bath-smelly but ...
Yanque Doodle Dandy
... and avoid them. This turns out to be a supremely sensible decision. Ten minutes later and we push our way off the bus at Yanque. We are the only two people to disembark. It immediately has the feel of a spaghetti western town but without the spaghetti or ...
R and R
... but he told me to stop living my food cravings through him! Haha! We are staying in a small village 7km outside Chivay called Yanque and it took a further 20 minutes to reach the hotel - but wow it was worth it. The hotel is an eco-lodge ...
Flight of the Condors!
Tummy update = I ate boiled rice! Woohoo! This morning was an early start as breakfast was at 6am. Needless to say I wasn't venturing to breakfast so I actually had an extra half an hour to have a very hot shower! What a treat! By ...
Oct 18, 2010
4900moh
Etter en god frokost hoppet vi i minibussen og var allerede rundt 08:00 paa vei til Colca Canyon. Turen tar normalt ca 3-4 timer, men paa grunn av mange stopp og mye og flott natur og ta bilde av ble turen noe lenger. Paa et av stoppene fikk vi se en ...
Cruz del Cóndor
Mit unseren Taxifahrer hatten wir ausgemacht, dass er uns schon um 4Uhr morgens abholt, damit wir heute Condore zu sehen bekommen. In Ruecksprache mit dem Personal im Hotel (das uebrigens ech klasse war, sie haben uns schon um 3.30Uhr Fruehstueck ...
Paso-Pferde, heisse Quellen und Alpaca Steak
... Colectivo (Sammeltaxi, das erst dann losfährt, sobald alle Sitze mit 1 bis 3 Personen pro Sitz belegt sind) weiter nach Yanque. Da Sonntag war, war dieses kleine Dorf relativ ausgestorben und meine Hoffnungen auf eine von mir gewünschte Reit-Tour und ...
Colca Canyon
... were impressive even if we didn^t get a really close view, and the view was awesome! We went to a small museaum in Yanque describing canyon life through the ages that was pretty neat (although we got decended upon by a bus full of chicas on a ...
Yanque
In the afternoon we visited Yanque, which is partially deserted due to the ´flu that the Spaniards brought with them. We got our first glimpse of the canyon with the terraces built to help with agriculture, and saw the "colcas" themselves, an Inca ...
Flight of the Condors...Last Day in Colca Canyon
... the beauty of Colca Canyon is something beyond words...it truly evokes a feeling inside that no picture or words can capture. Peru is an amazing country, probably the favorite I have been to...you have the canyon country in the south, Machu Picchu ...
Colca Canyon
Etter vekking 05:30 og frokost 06:00 var det avreise til Colca Canyon. Paa veien dit kjoerte vi innom mange ulike landsbyer og utsiktsposter og fikk sett enda mer av den enorme naturen. I en av de smaa landsbyene fikk vi ogsaa holde en kjempestor oern. ...
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