Colca Canyon
Trip Start
Jan 17, 2008
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Trip End
Feb 01, 2008
Colca Canyon,
Peru
Monday, January 28, 2008
While waiting for the agency bus in Plaza de Armas (the bus was late), I got to know Nahuel, an Argentinean waiting for the same bus... During the trip we kind of stuck together, which was good and made the whole tour nicer :).
He had a nice professional camera and took various excellent pictures... I canīt wait for them to arrive in my email :))).
We also made friends with some of the other tourists on board: Larissa from Brazil, Claudio (Argentina), a couple (him - Spaniard, her - Colombian), a family from Chile, an elder American - Jack - speaking very good Spanish, etc... So we were in very good company.
Like this, we got on the second day of the trip, (dead tired from only having around 2 hours of sleep in the night) to the Colca Canyon, that has around 1200 m hight, and thus making us walk above the clouds, which could be seen as a white and fluffy river, flowing between the mountains, that were appearing to us as hills
Colca Canyon
. We were not so lucky when it came to condor watching... we did not see any on the way to the Condorīs Cross, and none at the cross either... On our way back we saw first the big shade of one condor floating abouve our van... by the time I got down from the car, the condor was almost dissapearing from our sight, on the other side of the mountain peaks... :(((
Arrived back to Arequipa around 4:30 pm on Tuesday, went back to the house, took a shower, checked email, facebook, orkut :o), arranged my backpack and... Next to Nazca, LIma, Mancora and... Ecuadooor!!! :o).
