Colca Canyon Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Well the trip here was pretty hairy, I thought the blow out tyre was bad enough on the way into Arequipe, but although we arrived in one piece the road we travelled was bumpy, very windy and at times I was scared to look out of the window as we appeared to be hanging out over canyons!
But once we arrived, all was well, we found a really nice...

I took friday off from school to head to the Colca canyon {the worlds 2nd deepest canyon, the 1st cotahuasi 12 hours bus ride from Arequipa}. My time in Peru is limited and it is hard to fit in everything I want to do. I needed a break from my teacher Henry who has been grilling me with the imperfecto and pasado indifinido and who has surely bee...

I've spent a few days ruminating on our experience, and have hesitated to cement it into blogdom because overall, it wasn't a bad experience. However, it was very very nearly, overall, a bad experience.

The scenery, as you can see, is pretty amazing. It was just as amazing through the bus window (a six-hour trip over hellishly bumpy roads...

Well, with our Inca Trail adventure finally in the rear view mirror we took the train back to Cuzco where we spent a couple days in hiking detox – namely sleeping, watching TV and spending countless hours trying to repair / recover / revive our numerous failing electronic devices. When everything is working they are travel godsends (netboo...

About 5 hours north by bus of Arequipa sits Colca Canyon which is officially the World's Second Deepest Canyon and home to the huge condors of the Andes. We would like to point out that 5 hours by bus in Peru covers the equivilant distance of popping to Sainsburys and back in the UK.

We stayed at a small hostel in a one-horse town called ...

I had signed up to do the 3 day Colca Canyon trek with Daphne, a tiny Dutch fitness trainer I had met at the hostel. We were told that the trek is not too strenuous and from how the lady at the travel desk had explained, I thought I would manage just fine. Colca Canyon is the world’s second deepest canyon – twice as deep as the Grand...

Von Arequipa aus musste natuerlich noch eine weitere Sehenswuerdigkeit ertrekkt werden: Der Canyon del Colca, zweittiefster Canyon der Welt! Lange Zeit galt er als der tiefste Canyon, neuere Messungen aber haben aber ergeben das der Nachbarcanyon Cotahuasi noch etwa 150 meter tiefer ist. Mit seinen fast 3200 metern ist der Canyon del Colca aber ...

Nous nous levons a 5h30 pour partir vers 6h30 au Cruz del Condor, d'ou l'on peut obsverver une colonie de condors geants. Ces derniers s'envolent le matin entre 8h et 10h. Ce lieu etant devenu hautement touristique , les peruviens font payer l'entree du site, un simple mirador, presque 9 € ! Heureusement, notre logeuse nous indique une seri...

I have two memories of Colca canyon, I remember driving to a lookout over the canyon when I was about ten and I remember my Mom getting so scared because I was too close to the edge. I was simply longing to go down it. One of the deepest canyons in the world. The other memory was of the Andean condors. 10ft wingspans gliding across the canyon a...

Colca Canyon is huge! It´s the second deepest canyon on earth! Though I don't know how they measure... Highlights: - Probably the scariest bus ride of my life, and I've had a few. Nutcase driver trying to make up for a delay by driving very, very fast on a potholed dirt road on the edge of a precipice. Feeling held up by the bus in front he repe...