Cañon del Colca

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The Cañon del Colca is the second depest canyon in the world. I guess there was some debate about it for a while, but they detemined that the canyon next door is like 100 meters deeper. We met an Austrian couple - Christian and Agnes on our way to the canyon and decided to travel with them. They had a map and knew more about what to do. We hiked for down about 1200 meters into the canyon to a town called San Juan de Chuccho. We spent the night there for $1.50 each and another $1.50 for dinner. I was starting to feel a little sick, but made it through our time there okay. I think it is pretty typical to get your first sickness out of the way in the first week. We have both felt it, but its just getting used to a different culture and their foods. As I write this I am starting to feel a lot better. But I did go buy some snickers, chips ahoy and good old Nutella just to feel at home. We have a 5 1/2 hour bus ride to Puno on Lake Titicaca later this afternoon.

Back to the Cañon, Erik is going to put up pictures and our descriptions might get redundant, but you can get two prespectives.

We hiked the next morining to the upper part of the the canyon on the opposite side we entered to a large ( for the canyon) town called Tapay. This video shows the central Cathedral and its plaza. Its really amazing these people have built all of this in a canyon that is not accessable by road.

They pack everything in on donkeys. I have two videos of the trail I will put up that show the donkeys on the trail.