Freezing dinner in a "hostel" in a village where tourism luckily hasn´t found its way yet!

While we were driving back from our trip in the canyon, we passed a couple of villages. We decided, without any preparation, to stay in one of this villages and it was an amazing experience: cold, lovely kids, beautiful view and a freezing shower and even in my bed I couldn´t warm up...all the people in this villages had burnwounds of the cold in theirs faces and the skin looked like leather.

far away from civilization

June 22nd 2006
With the help of a Belgian couple that we had met some days before on our trip to the ballestas islands, we planned a trip into the Cañon de Colca. For years there was raging controversy over whether or not this was the world´s deepest canyon about 3191 meter, but it has recently drawn in a close second to the neighbouring Canyon. the local people are known for their painstackingly decorated t ... 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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