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Colca Canyon

Posted from Bakewell, UK by Chris, 12 Feb 09 at 08:59

Bumpy bus ride across the surface of the moon to get to Colca Canyon to try to see condors. En route we went on an alpaca/vicuna/llama safari (Ahh). We spent the night in the mountain village of Chivay, where national costume was the norm and the hostel owner gave us each a hot water bottle to take to bed and a drink of coca tea (as in cocaine). Up at the crack of dawn for another gut rearranging ride down the Colca Canyon to the Cruz del Condor.

The weather was perfect and we saw about half a dozen of them (but not clear on photos, see if you can spot one on 3rd one). The canyon is apparently the deepest in the world and it was dizzying looking down to the bottom. We stayed in a zone with 140 volcanoes and 4 tremors a day. Our hotel bedroom bore a sign saying it was seismically safe, so the earth didn't move for us. We had yet another session in a hot volcanic pool, coming out looking like boiled beetroots before dinner and a show of extremely silly folk dancing.
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Posted by Ginny & Kevin on 13 Feb 09 16:46
How fabulous that the condors so obligingly provided you with one of their impressive aerial displays. Yes, photo 3 confirms it all. We half expected to see your smiling faces waving behind the BBC journalist, as he reported from the Galapagos Islands yesterday, on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. Then I checked your itinerary, only to find that you missed your golden opportunity by just 5 days. Life's like that.
Posted by Jane on 14 Feb 09 17:07
I can feel a "spot the condor and win 50 credits" activity coming on.



Nice to see photos back. Love to you both.
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