Blogs from Colca Canyon, Arequipa, Peru, South America - page 28

Day 5 Shouldn't have left those trousers there - they were frozen solid in the morning!!! I almost was too as my blow up sleeping mat has a puncture :( Naturally the only bit flat enough to camp on near a riverwas a bit soggy and the water running around the tent had frozen too!! Mentally I was really ready to take on the pass but when we started walking I wasn't so sure i could. We pushed on however, feeing better as we warmed up and after only a few hours Paso Cerani became visible. The only problem now was how we get to it. The path had completely disappeared and our guiding hoof marks and rubber sandal prints from some crazy local taking his cows over there all but gone too. Martin took a ... read more

Guillaume salut tout le monde coment ca va !!! moi je suis assez fatiguer apres avoir fait un mechant trip la nuit du samedi au dimanche.Bon explication, finalement moi et Claudine ont c est rendu conte qui nous restait plus de temps qu il nous en falait pour allez au cayon de colca. Avec le but samedi matin de partir voir le Condor (comme les Grenier l avait fait et demontre sur leur blog) et de peut etre rencontre l oiseau inconu lol. a mi chemin de l observatoir nous avons faite la connaissance de deux perouviennes de lima qui ce rendait tout comme nous au cayon. Beaucoup plus excitent que d allez voir des oiseaux elle nous ont demande si ont voulait decendre en bas du cayon!!!!! une decendre de 1300 M avec a ... read more

Back on the bus this time on my own. Feels like i´ve lost a limb. However, Cusco is again fabulous being reunited with my friend Casper from Ecuador, meeting Shymmal (a friend from home) and spending a week chilling with a v. friendly Danish friend who supports Liverpool, hence laughing heartily when they lose the Champions League final and over the week drinking way more wine that is healthy, at least a break from the cuba libres! Fancy dress entails ppl making a good effort from their backpacks and an abundance of men in dresses! My effort however was a blk vest with blk tights combined with big yellow pants over the top with backcombed hair and a binliner cape to create a kinda Superheroe/dodgy fitness instructor look. Arequipa follows and we decend into Colca Canyon, ... read more

Like I said in my quick entry yesterday, the nature of travelling is just so, thus we did everything we planned backwards, or just not at all. :) We took the bus to Cabanaconde, the first stop on the way into the Colca Canyon the (almost, superceeded by only a few metres by its brother a few km away) deepest canyon on earth. Again, we were bounced about more than well...insert simile as you like. Can{t rforget to mention the escaped guinea pig who caused havoc every time we stopped!!! We had our culinary tour of Peru in Urubamba, this bus journey turned out to be the flora/fauna and geology tour, which was a great distraction from the potholes. We descended from the heat of Arequipa through plains and rocky deserts, into the middle of a ... read more

So we thought enough of relaxing in Arequipa lets do a hike!!! We had left Tom and Russ at the bus station the sad end of Travel Team Tummy Trouble. Now it was the big A and E again!! We spent a full day walking up and down the Canyon choosing the hottest point of the day for the latter, not a good idea, it was so hot hot hot!!! ... read more