Las Casitas del Colca
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El Canyon de Colca
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Ca commence, par un reveille à 02:00, de la 3h de bus dans le froid avec un passage à 4910m, premier stop dans un village pour petit déjeuner, ( pas top et y fait trop froid ). Nous reprenons le bus pour 1h 30 de route ( sans goudron !! ), et la deuxième stop, "al Cruz del Condor", vue imprenable sur le canyon, avec des condors qui passent juste au dessus de nos têtes, ...
Colca Canyon
Our driver Sergio and guide Salome from Colca Trek picked us up at our hostel in Arequipa. We were a group of ten: two from Switzerland, two from Belgium, two from France, two from Spain and us.
Rising into the Andes, we accumulated altitude and quickly crossed the 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) mark, commonly known as the height above which altitude sickness becomes a concern.
First we visited some shapely rock formations on ...
Yanque
In the afternoon we visited Yanque, which is partially deserted due to the ´flu that the Spaniards brought with them. We got our first glimpse of the canyon with the terraces built to help with agriculture, and saw the "colcas" themselves, an Inca version of fridges, which must have involved climbing down the sides of the canyon to retrieve food - inventive but not very practical... I also got my first ...
Heaven at 4800 meters - Colca Canyon
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... very sick - nausea, severe headaches, chest pain, difficult breathing - all symptoms of the sickness. Last year just outside of Tibet I suffered at lower altitudes - my ears just would not settle down and the pain inside the canal limited my access to Tibet. I am happy to say, with the aid of lots of Coca tea and Coca candies and some other herbs - I have been fine. Definitely shortness of breath on exertion but I am one of ...
Colca Canyon Trek
We were up early in the morning to get ready for the 3 day trek to Colca Canyon. The bus picked us up before 8:00am and we and our day-packs were loaded into the van. We were joined by another couple from the U.S. So off we went, the 6 gringos, our driver and our guide. We were told that whenever we wanted to take pictures they would stop, it was going to be a very relaxing journey.
Our initial destination was a town called Chivay, ...
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- Swimming pool
- Business Services
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