Casa Andina Chivay
Huayna Capac s/n Chivay Chivay, Colca Canyon, 54, Peru
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The real peru
spent a day of rest, sort of in Arequiepa after our long drive down coast. weather evry pleasant. we have all brought the wrong clothes. walked down to the main Plaza and visited all the things that you normallydo. getting used to the shabby stae of the streets which has it,s own charm. feeling the altitude a littel but that could be we have not …
La Colco (Canyon) and Alpaca country
On Sunday 20th we were picked up by the Peru-Bolivia tour bus at 8:30 am
and headed off towards the famous Colca Canyon.
The first day of the 2-day tour gives everyone a chance to see the volcanoes ,
a national park with alpacas and a cement factory.
The volcanic rocks are mostly white and there is a lot of this rock
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Colca Canyon and the Condors
The bus picked us up for the second day at 6AM.
We slowly worked our way down the valley
until we reached Cabanaconde.
Stopping in Maca along the road
we saw a restored Church next
to a pretty basic town.
The canyon itself compared to rivers
I have seen (for example the Fraser River
in Lilloet BC, …
Juliaca= Mos Eisley
We have arrived in Puno. Mike and I can feel the altitude and Juli got sick on the plane, so we are off to a rousing start. Mos Eisley.....do you remember what that is.......think Star Wars and the cantina scenes. That is Juliaca. Mike said Juliaca to Puno was the poorest area he had ever seen, and remember he worked in South America for months. …
Under the wings of the condors
An early morning departure from Arequipa took us to the Colca Canyon, the world's deepest canyon and home to the world's largest birds - the Andean condors. The two days were truly days of superlatives.
En route to the canyon we saw fields of vicuņa and alpaca. They seemed to give us little notice, and they were not afraid to approach us …



