Masa and Jaime

This is at the top of the canyon looking across at the villages. They don´t have electricity or a road to get to them, everyone has to make the trip with mules, horses or donkeys or by foot.

Colca Canyon Hiking

July 19th 2006
For the last three days we have been hiking around in Colca Canyon, near Arequipa. Colca is the second deepest canyon in the world, with the first deepest about 12 hours from here, apparently. After the bus ride to Colca, I think I´ll be skipping that one. The bus took 5 hours first stopping in Chivay and then continuing to Cabanaconde. Some of the road was paved. Before we left someone (Den ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more

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