On our 3rd day in Arequipa we decided to book ourselves on a 3 day trek through the Colca Canyon, which is allegedly deeper than the Grand Canyon and is made up of volcanoes, mountains and hundreds of waterfalls! The bus came to pick us up at 4am and we arrived at Condor Cross four hours later where we saw teams of Condors gliding over the canyon looking for smaller weak animals. We stopped for lunch in the small village of Cabanaconde and split into our trekking groups, luckily for us we had a small group of 5. At this point we had ascended to 3900 ft and didn't really get chance to feel the effects of the altitude as we began our descent striaght away. We descended over 1500ft in 7km (4 hours), which was
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