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Chivay Slideshow
Chivay
Travel Blogs from Chivay, Peru
Colca Canyon - dan 2.
... izlazimo pjesice, jer je Felix za svaki slučaj s autom već izasao, jer su neke demonstracije najavljene i za sam Chivay, pa je postojala mogućnost da ne mozemo niti krenuti prema Arequipi. Pozrtvovnom Felixu, Rose iz restorana nosi ...
sadomaso dance at colca canyon
... Ale was wrong and the women let the two beautifull bands the next day on the reception. The evening where we stayed in Chivay we ate dinner in a restaurant with a dancing and music show. After two impressive tipical colca dance a singer present all ...
Flight of the Condors
... ) old. After reaching the highest point where the air feels thin, we descend into the green valley to the small town of Chivay. The farmed patch-work green valley floor is a relief from the dusty hills where few things grow naturally. This is where ...
Mummys and Condors
... 't tell us the difference between a canyon and a valley. The views were spectacular. After the canyon we drove to a small town called Chivay for the night, here we relaxed in some hot pools and ate great pizza. The following day we set off on the long ...
wo gehts hier zur schlucht?
... angehaucht, sehr sauber und vor allem gibts einen haufen coole cafes! genau unsere welt. nach dre stunden busfahrt erreichen wir chivay, finden auch gleich eine unterkunft. daniel und eva begleiten uns auf unserem trip in die zwei tiefste schlucht der ...
Day 32 – Road to Chivay
... out of our price range. With bellies full, we're off to Chivay in a brand new Mercedes van handled by Walter, our professional driver. Chivay is the gateway to the Colca Canyon, and we’re excited to spend a bit of time there. On the way, we make ...
Peru
... Next the tour headed to Arequipa which was fairly non-eventful and then we took an overnight bus to a very small town called Chivay, our base for travelling to Colca Canyon. That afternoon in Chivay we spent at the local hot springs relaxing in the ...
Flight of the Condors
... to walk around although not something i'm massively interseted in but good to see none the less. The following day I headed to Chivay which is a small town in the mountains around 4 hours away from Arequipa. The primary industry for the locals is farming ...
Flying high with Condors at Colca Canyon
... taken as we were surrounded by the three beautiful surrounding volcanoes- Misti, Chacani and Nbdo. Ampato. We arrived in Chivay our base for exploring the Colca Canyon the following morning and spent the late afternoon drinking beers and listening to ...
Condors or Sparrows?
... don't see any. Saw a couple of eagles and some sheep by way of consolation. Tired and disappointed we headed back to Chivay, which is only an ickle town but big on celebrations. That night they were celebrating something or other with a crazy local ...
Where condors fly
... would have a good chance of seeing a condor. The tour cost 20 dollars including transport, guide, and overnight accommodation in Chivay. It started when I was picked up from my hotel along with a dutch couple and Lucy, coincidentally from Macclesfield, ...
Condors at Colca Canyon
... to become more and more prevalent and the minibus was reduced to a crawl at some points. We spent the rest of the day in Chivay (the main town in the canyon) after a buffet lunch that included alpaca.... The next day we were up for 6am to go to ...
Chivay, Peru
We left Arequipa after a fun night out on the town. We headed to Chivay which was at 3800m above see level. It a small town and we spent all day on metal roads getting here. Everyone seemed to be suffering from the altitude to get here as we were at ...
Don't buy a swimming costume in Peru
... for a long time. Just to check out its altitude sikness busting qualities of course. We drove through some amazing scenery to reach Chivay, the town we were staying in for one night. We passed volcanoes and what looked like lunar scenes. We stopped at a ...
Over The Top To Chivay
... volcanoes on the skyline. We reached 5000 metres and stopped for coca tea and cheese sandwiches before descending into the valley of Chivay. After a 6 hour drive we headed for the hot springs of La Calera, my favourite spa so far, the water was super hot ...
Colca Canyon
... 5000m above sea level but we weren´t affected so we just looked out at the snow from the bus. We arrived in Chivay in time for lunch - it seems all restaurants there offer a set tourist menu with little choice. Our accommodation for the night ...
Flight of the condors
... it back to Arequipa and promptly had to dash to the bus station to pick up an overnight bus heading to Cusco. This is another of Peru’s major cities, which is famous for being near to Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail. It will be nice to get out of a ...
Condors!
Leaving Cusco behind us we left for the high passes and deep valleys of the colca canyon and Arequipa to view the condors rising in the early morning catching the dawn ...
Hot springs, alpacas and canyon country
... to take one of the trekking tours, which I think would have been fun, so we just got a bus out to a little town called Chivay and explored on our own. The scenery on the bus ride out there was really stunning. Most often it was these sweeping ...
Heavy Breathing
... length and breadth of the world, but no matter where you go there are two things you cannot avoid: McDonalds, and... Irish bars! Chivay, pop. 2000(maybe) in the middle of the mountains, noticeable only for being on route to the Cruz de Condor (more ...
Ups and downs in the Colca Canyon
... plain with scattered herds of llama, vicuña and alpaca. We descended on a rather hairy winding road into a town called Chivay, which has a hot springs as well as being near the start of the crazy canyon. The hot springs were good, especially ...
Condor moment
Up bright and early (who promised sleep in´s when back packing!) and picked up the mini bus for the two day trip to Colca Canyon and its surroundings. Our guide´Dina´was immediately likable, so after picking up the rest of the motley crew who made up ...
Colca Tour: Day 1
... us. Ten minutes more of waiting and after apologies from the clipboard woman, we climbed aboard and soon began the ascent to Chivay in the mountains. After about two hours we arrived at the highest point in the area, which was something like 4980metres ...
Condors in world´s deepest canyon
Until I got here I had never heard of Canon de Colca. At over 4100mtrs it is said to be deeper than the Grand Canyon. There is another canyon Catahusi not far which is nearly as deep. At the bottom is a river which is continuing to erode the ...
Cañon del Colca (by bus not foot!)
Anyway.. we ended up doing a 2 day bus trip to the Cañon and was still pretty amazing. Valley of the condors was cool.. see pics. Dani was over the worse but as the road was one of the bumpiest I´ve ever been on I totally felt for her. Went to some ...
Chivay, Colca Canyon in search of the Condors
... with cactus and into the Andean marshland high up in the mountains and came across wild Llamas and Alpacas, which was very cool. Chivay is a very small town in the middle of the Andean Mountains. There was a festival on at the time, but all ...
Flying high
... road for the next hour and then made the tortuous descent to Chivay, at a modest 3600m, from the 4800 m Altiplano. The reason for visiting Chivay was to see the Colca Canyon. Our bus dropped us off at our hostal - not a problem when you're the only ...
Colca Canyon
... Zimbabwe. Language was a bigger issue this time but we coped ok. The first morning was spent driving down to Chivay, (the city of love apparently, where everyone leaves married - I managed to avoid doing that fortunately!!) On the way ...