Colca Canyon Hostels - Reviews and Rates

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After an exciting morning of exploration, in the early afternoon, we headed to Huayocari Hacienda for an enjoyable private lunch. Huayocari Hacienda is a private residence that was built in the fifties by one of the most prestigious families in Cusco, landowners and art collectors. It had an impressive collection of Inca and c...

I am woken up by a splitting headache. It's 5:30 am, and I'm freaking freezing as everything outside and a few things inside of the little house I'm staying in are covered with frost. I can't eat and I'm feeling dizzy so I prepare some sandwiches and set off to see the mountains.

The road to Cruz del Cóndor, and generally to the entire ...

leves a 4 h45 , a cette heure le soleil pointe juste son nez, pas facile tous les jours les vacances.......
depart pour la remontee du canyon sans prendre de petit dejeuner a 5h00, on s achete quand meme des cookies pour lapport de glucides: pas fous ces peruviens
en gros le guide nous dit good luck on se retrouve en haut chacun son rythme...

I just found that you can take a virtural tour of our trip online: http://www.manuvilcaperu.com/FrmTourv.h tm. Check this out if you want to see a better version of the route that we took and the actual map with the cities and towns on it. The google map on this TravelPod doesn´t have a lot of the small towns that we visited listed on it.

***NOTE TO OTHER PERU TRAVELERS: If you are planning a trip to the Amazon, we HIGHLY recommend VILCA Expeditions. You can arrange tours with them at their offices in Cuzco just off the Plaza de Armas. They offer an affordable tour wiht great guides, excellent transportation, and great service all around.****

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Jour 7 – Canyon de Colca
Nous partons en excursion privée avec chauffeur et guide vers la vallée et le canyon de Colca, deux fois plus profond que le Grand Canyon. Pour s’y rendre depuis Arequipa, la route fait son chemin entre les volcans et les pics enneigés, c’est magnifique. Nous voyons au loin le Nevado Mismi, le glaci...

HUNDREDS upon hundreds of vicunas and guanacaos lay in the fields as we made our way up to Colca Canyon. As you travel to this enormous canyon from Arequipa you can definitely see how it´s described as the part the moon left behind. An arid, dry, rocky landscape. But unlike the moon there is green shrubbery popping out intermittently on the surf...

First up after my sleepless early morning bus journey (bringing my night's total to about 10 minutes, huzzah) was Cruz del Condor, or Condor Cross en inglés. Here, these magnificent scavengers rise up on the morning thermals before riding the currents up to 200 miles away in search of carrion on which to gorge themselves. Watching these massive ...

Just over a week ago now we came back from our three day trek of the Colca Canyon. We thought it best to leave it this long to write our blog entry as now our attitude is more like ¨wow that was hard work but definitely worth it¨ rather than ¨bugger me, my legs feel like they are about to fall off¨. We started the trek last sunday and it took us...

We were all pretty hiked-out after the Inca, however we wanted to see the worlds deepest canyon which had good write ups as one of the Must see things in Peru...
 
We booked a tour which was 3 days and 2 nights. The name of this tour - the mixed misadventure- is due to a series of ups and downs. It goes like this:
 
Bus collects us l...