Colca Canyon 2 day hike

Another day starting (way too early) at 2.30am. 😅🫠 got picked up at 3am for the Colca Canyon 2 day trekking. The Colca Canyon with a depth of about 1000 – 2000 m is one of the deepest canyons in the world. Its length is about 70 kilometres.

After 3 hours of drive and a nice breakfast, we arrived at the Cruz del Condor to watch..Condors. We were super lucky as we saw a bunch of these majestic creatures and apparently, the tourguide hasn't seen them for the last 5 weeks.

From the town of Cabanaconde located at 3,287 meters above sea level, we started our trek through the canyon. We descended around 1000m for about 3 hours towards the town of San Juan de Chuccho where we had lunch. Afterwards, we continued our trek to the Oasis of Sangalle for about 3 hours. This part for me personally was the worst part of the whole trek as the sun was very strong and I barely slept the last night. I felt like the next day - which is supposed to be the hard part - I would not survive. 😅😵

We all went to bed at 8pm, as the next day started at 4am. 3h of ascent was awaiting me. Being scared would have been an understatement 😄 but at least I had around 7h of sleep and I was determined to make it to the top.

As it was super early on the morning and the sun was not hitting this side of the canyon, the temperatur was perfect for hiking up. I honestly enjoyed the hike a lot and it was not even as hard as I thought it was. Guess I do have some proper Swiss hiking DNA in me 😄 also, the little fluff dog that accompanied me troughout the whole hike was the loveliest thing ever 🖤Leggi altro