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Chivay Slideshow
Chivay
Travel Blogs from Chivay, Peru
To Chivay
... really show us anything new but did give us some high altitude practice fotr the Inca trail. We had already passed this little dusty town (Chivay) on the way to the canyon and had to return to there for the night, getting in around 300. No time was ...
Altitude and Condors
... over one of the highest points of our trip at 4,900m. We passed through various small villages, stopping eventually in Chivay, where we enjoyed the thermo-medicinal baths. Overnight was at the Hotel Collahua, which was empty except for us and ...
White men can´t dance
... "appreciate and take photos" of alpaca, llama, volcano, rock, valley etc. After some agreeably interesting scenery, we stopped in Chivay for a good-ole all-you-can-eat effort. After some digestion time it was off for our new ...
Ausflug Colca Canyon - Tag 1
Heute begann unser 2-Tagesausflug zum Colca Canyon. Man hätte das auch in einen Tag packen können, aber dann hätte man um 3 Uhr abfahren müssen... und da wir genug Zeit hatten, haben wir uns für den 2-Tagesausflug entschieden und fuhren so erst um 8 ...
Dirty Pigeons
... , proceded to get ready & pack everything up. We called a cab and headed to the bus station to take a local bus to Chivay. We had not read anything good about the local buses so we were very nervous. Once at the bus station, we passed multiple booths ...
Pedro y Pedro
... a huge grey eagle on our arms & head and also tried some local fruit (one was a prickly pear). After we returned to Chivay, we ventured down to the square for some luch before meeting our bus. The plaza was packed with a parade. We found a place ...
Canion Colca um dos mais profundos do mundo
... que foi a que ficamos e é também a mais bem servida em termos de hotéis,mas a coisa mais interessante é a igreja de Chivay. Apesar de ensolarado durante o dia as noites são geladas, pois Chivay é mais alta que Cusco entorno de 3600m, nós ...
Chivay (All uphill from Arequipa)
... of the trip to Chivay was very scenic. We stopped again and Sylvia found a new friend (see pics) We eventually arrived in Chivay and were dropped at our hotel which was very cool. There were several stone cabins that were typical for the area but fairly ...
"A F**king Big Ridge and Some Birds"
... past every couple of minutes. Queue more photo-taking and ´aaaaw´ing at how cute the baby ones were. Final stop before Chivay: a viewpoint at a heady 5000m to take in the valley and get a good view of three of the big volcanoes that dominate the ...
Condors, hot springs en Colca Balley!
Met kleine bus vertrokken we ´s morgens vroeg vanuit Arequipa met bestemming Chivay. Mooie rit, veel gestopt en een gids die niet kon zwijgen :-) Adembenemende uitzichten, het leken wel postkaartjes.. De busrit begon te lang en te hobbelig te worden, ...
Excursion dans l'altiplano et bains chauds...
... un restau puis check in a l'hotel. Chambre belle et propre et calme.. Thom fait la sieste pendant que je me balade dans Chivay. Rachete de la coca, differente de celle de Cajamarca, plus grosses et plus fraiches, car ce matin nous en avons mache un ...
Deep trouble and achey legs!
... up for some reason) where we scoffed scrambled eggs and jam and coffee. Then we got in a bigger minibus which took us back to Chivay, with obligatory llama photo stops along the way and to the amazing 45 degree hot springs which we lolled in for an hour, ...
A long drive
We have the morning to ourself and spend it chilling. At 12 the bus picks us up from the hotel. We drive to towards Chivay in Colca cannyon. On route we see the volcanoes that surround Arequipa and stop to get egg sandwhichs at a cafe in the middle of ...
Kondore über dem Colca Cañon
... wir jetzt keine Fotos... . Macht nichts, laden wir uns eins aus dem Netz ;-). Auf der Rückfahrt nach 'Chivay' genossen wir die außergewöhnliche Landschaft des Canyons. Hier werden auf terassenartigen Feldern Gemüse, Kartoffeln und ...
Puno to Chivay and the Colca Canyon
... the local rodent, the vizcacha, a sort of rabbit-like squirrel with a long thin tail. Spectacular views down the mountain side to Chivay, where we were to stay at the Hotel Pozo del Cielo, just out of the town centre. No hot water for showering! What is ...
Tour Vale do Colca
... e não é droga. Achei muito gostoso o chá da folha de coca e trouxe até um pouco para o Brasil. Chegando em Chivay, uma cidadezinha no meio do vale, pudemos experimentar no almoço a carne de alpaca e depois fomos direto nas piscinas de aguas termais ...
"You are brothers?"
... question of the day was definitely ´´Como como?´´ (our way of asking how the hell do I eat this?). The women in Chivay all wore very traditional clothing - layered skirts with tons of embroidery and hats with silver sequins or more ...
Colca: Canyons and Condors
... pass where it was snowing! We also learned to tell the difference between Alpacas and Llamas. We then stopped off for lunch at Chivay where I had a delicious Alpaca... We were supposed to go on a trek in the canyon but this was called off due to the poor ...
Cañon de Colca
... lugar. O daqui de Colca imita uma vila. Falta contar uma coisa: esta noite NEVOU nos picos ao redor de Chivay. Ficamos encantados com a surpresa, mas nos esquecemos que logo depois, ao voltar pela mesma estrada, ficaríamos tão altos ...
Colca Canyon
... I was getting a headache and it was only minimal. I bought a blanket at this lookout/market. Bright blue with some inca designs on it. Cost $60 sol or $20US). We headed back down the mountain into the Colca Canyon and into the town of Chivay ...
Colca Canyon
... battle altitude on my own. I did buy some coca lollies- they don't taste so much like trees. During a walk around the town of Chivay, a little girl quite dirty, came up and was amazed at first by my braids asking who did them, then she saw my toe nails ...
aaaahhhh...warm shower
... view. No amount of Coca tea, leaves or candy could have helped. The last stop before our hotel was a local restaurant in Chivay. It was a buffet style and they served all the traditional foods...again Mike had alpacha...I stuck to chicken and fish. ...
Condor sightings in the Colca Valley
... , which was nice, even though it was freezing outside of the pool. Afterwards, we went to a dinner and dance show in Chivay. The food wasn't good but the show was great, it was traditional Peruvian dance. I loved their traditional outfits, so ...
Colca Canyon
... again the pictures will be uploaded shortly i promise. We caught the public bus to a small town near the canyons main entry called Chivay, after a local lunch we had a nice 4 hour hike down the goat track (well actual donkey tracks), it was quite hard ...
Kondore über dem zweitgrößten Canyon der Welt
Tags darauf hieß es wieder einmal um halb 4 Uhr morgens aufzustehen um mit dem lokalen Bus bis zum Mirador Cruz del Condor (Kreuz des Kondors) zu fahren. Dieser Mirador ist eine Aussichtsplattform mit einem gigantischen Ausblick auf den Colca Canyon, ...