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Post 2 - Arequipa - the white city and the Colca Valley
from deep canyons to emotional peaks...
Early in the morning, we set off from Puno towards Colca Canyon in a tourist bus. We had booked a two-day trek and wanted to hike into the canyon and back out the next day. Most...
Shortly after arriving in Arequipa, we met Iris and Matthias from Austria during a city tour of the "white city" in Peru. Like us, they wanted to do the tour through the Colca...
Condors
Working on even more altitude
The trip to Colca Valley was worth it because we were able to observe the condors very closely as they sailed by and spend a day in the best weather.
The Colca Canyon is the second deepest canyon in the world, even deeper than the Grand Canyon. Therefore, we thought it would be fun to hike down and back up. Our tour started...
We started our trek directly in Arequipa to the second deepest valley in the world, the Colca Valley or Colca Canyon. The trek lasted 3 days and is quite easy to describe,...