"Sadly we had to move to a new hotel today. I could easily stay at the one we were at for a good week. In comparison, our new hotel... now in the provincial capital of Chivay... is ..."
A travel blog entry from Chivay by
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"The photos that I took did not capture the glory of the condor. I will have others coming via e-mail in the future from some of the people I met visiting the condor valley. Also in ..."
"From Arequipa we drove to Chivay. We crossed the altiplano and saw loats of lamas, alpacas and also vicunas which are a rare member of the camelid family. We went up and over a pas ..."
"Fiona To add to my joy at staying in a dingy, airless room with its only window looking out onto the indoor car park, we were woken at 6am by a band of Peruvian pan pipe players. I ..."
"Unfortunately, this is not an entry of great adventure... I took a 3-day, 2-night trip to Chivay, a town at the head of the Colca Canyon. I arrived Tuesday, late afternoon, checked ..."
"Not a ton to report, but we took the overnight bus from Cuzco to Arequipa two days ago...dressed in three and four layers, we boarded the bus at 8:30 pm, but despite our fears that ..."
"El "Cañón del Colca", això és el que ens ha portat a aquest tranquil turístic poblet. El canó més profund del món. Hi hem arribat amb la Katie, una noia de Chicago prou curiosa i t ..."
"Heading north from Arequipa towards the mid-section of Peru we joined a 2-day tour to the Canon del Colca. It is the deepest canyon in the world at 10,530 feet. We would have loved ..."
"Today we returned from our trip to the Colca Canyon. We spent yesterday on the a bus touring through the Parque Nacional enjoying the sights of volcanoes, vicunas, llamas, and alpa ..."
"It was a 5 hour very dusty drive to Colca Canyon. The road wound up through the volcanoes and the scenery was very dry and barren. We drove through a pass at 4,800m and stopped for ..."