Pachamama Arequipa
San Pedro 209 Arequipa, Peru
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This certainly doesn't taste like chicken
While Elizabeth took off to marvel at the flight of the condors over the Colca Canyon, Colm confirmed that a cold picked up during hot weather is the toughest one to shake off back at the hostel.
Out at the canyon (this is complete Peruvian wilderness by the way), it's alpaca meat or vegetarian food. And this is no place to start …
´Treking Friend!´ :D
There are three things that people never tell you about the desert. The first is that how increadilby dusty it is. It gets every where, literally everywhere. It goes through your shoes and impregnates your socks, gets in you hair, under you nails, it subtly covers your shades until you can barely see, in the pores of you skin and it sticks to you …
Condors and Canyons
We make our way from the town of Arequipa further up in altitude to 3600m above sea level, just in case we weren't already getting use to the altitude.
All along the early morning bus journey, the scenery is absolutely beautiful. We pass through the foothills of volcanoes some 6000m plus high, through winding mountainside roads looking …
Uros und Taquile - zwei Inseln
Uros - die schwimmenden Schilfinseln. Wer hat nicht schon davon gehört? Fast niemand, scheint es, denn die Inseln werden von Touristen überrannt. Früh morgens legen wir im Hafen von Puno ab und erreichen tuckernd "unsere" Insel. Hinter uns folgen mindestens 20 weitere Boote, die ebenfalls je auf eine der Inseln zusteuern. Wir legen an und erhalten …
The Passage to Cabanaconde
From Nazca, we went to Arequipa in order to see Cabanaconde, the last of a series of Andean villages perched at the rim of Colca Canyon. About six hours by bus from the second-largest city in Peru, the village, like its neighboring villages, is Andean in tradition and inhabited by the Cabana and Collagua ethnic groups.
Colca Canyon is one …



