<By Jay> Hola !! Pour notre avant-dernier bus de nuit, nous avons choisi l'option flashpacking (pour backpackers riches) : Super Cama !! Fauteuils en cuir, et moitie plus large que les normaux. Vive le luxe ! Bon, le reste du service ne vaut pas les bus argentins : pas de vin, pas de champagne, et une video de pubs et de clips d'Elvis Pres...

The first hike and major site seeing opportunity of a natural Peruvian wonder. I took about 50 pictures so this is only a small sample. We awoke in the morning and grabbed a $6 bus ride to Chivay, a small transit hub at the start of the Colca Canyon. We met up with a nice French couple (a sing of things to come) and grabbed a $1 bus to Cabanacon...

5.5 hours northwest of Arequipa, 2.5 - 3.0 hours of which involved land travel designed solely for vehicles of hoofed architecture, the town of Cabanaconde (Caba) was our take-off point for a two day stint into the 2nd, yes 2nd , deepest canyon in the world. A steady descent 3191m to the Rio Colca, a mere 163m shy of its closest, deepest neighbo...

We arrived at the Colca Canyon after 5 hours on a local bus. The first 3 hours were on a paved road but constant switchbacks to make it up and down the mountains. The last 2 hours the ride became a back breaking, bumpy ride on a dirt road that if you looked at it you wouldn´t think a bus should be able to go on this road. When we finally arrived...

6 heures d´autobus publique (avec des gens de la régions! yeeee!) pour se rendre au canyon del colca où nous ferons un trek de trois jours en compagnie d´un couple londoniens, de deux suissesses, et de notre charmante guide Maria. Plan de match Jour 1 Descente de 4h dans le canyon à partir de Cabanaconde. (ouh les genoux... Seb tu n´aurais pas s...

From Arequipa we joined a group and guide to spend three days exploring the Colca Canyon. At 3,200 metres deep, it is the deepest canyon in the world after the nearby Cotahuasi Canyon that is about 200 metres deeper but a lot harder to get to. After being picked up in a taxi by our guide we piled into the public bus to go to the town of Cabanaco...

I left the city center made of white volcanic rock beneath the shadow of Volcan Misti to grab a series of bus connections to Cabanaconde, a good jump of village to explore the Colca Canyon the worlds second deepest (an adjacent canyon though a bit less spectacular is 163 meters deeper). I Arrived in the evening and met up with a few travelers to...

We took a side trip from Arequipa to Cabanaconde in the Colca Canyon. It is suppose to be 2 times deeper than the Grand Canyon and the deepest canyon in the world, but it is hard to tell because it looks so different. It was covered in vegetation and some areas are deeper than others. We arrived in Cabanaconde after a scary 6 hour bus along the ...

Wednesday, and we´re up at 5am for the 6am bus to Cabanaconde via Chivay to see the cañon del colca, one of the worlds deepest canyons at 3191m. A long bus ride later, finally arriving from the bumpy roads at midday, we were picked up by our guides wife for lunch. Alpaca steak - i would say its a first but i had just an alpaca empanada on the bu...

L'attesa fino all'arrivo del taxi che ci avrebbe portato all'autobus, non e' stata cosi' traumatica. Tra qualche chiaccherata e una partita a scacchi l'ora e' arrivata abbastanza in fretta. Verso mezzanotte Jorge ci ha presentato la nostra guida, Alain (che si pronuncia Alain con l'accento sulla i) un ragazzo di 24 anni, madrelingua Quechua e co...