Cañón de Colca

One of the principal things to see near Arequipa is the cañón de colca, the third biggest canyon in the world! I decided to go there for a two day hike with a tour and hence was picked up at 3am in the morning😴The bus ride already predicted beautiful landscapes and we observed the source of the Amazonas on the way. Unfortunately that day we could not observe the Andean condor at a famous viewpoint but saw some later during the hike!! After the breakfast spot and around 4h by bus we started our hike. The first day we walked all the way down to the river to the middle of the canyon and had lunch on the other side. We enjoyed the sun and relaxed for a bit at the lunch place but then needed to continue the hike since our guide knew that in the afternoon it would start raining and we still needed to walk another 3h to get to the campsite for the night. As he told, it started raining soon but in contrast to some other people of the group I was gladly well prepared for that. The hike along the unaccountable fig trees and cactus fields was still so nice and the mood of the group was kept high! In the night we were told to revise the whole room and the bed sheets to make sure there is no dangerous spiders or scorpions but gladly we did not see anything! The next day we then started our hike at 4:30am when it was still dark since we needed to hike up the canyon again. The hike was with 6km quite short in kilometres but pretty steep and it then took me around 3h to walk up the 1.200m. Fortunately that day we did not have to walk anymore and just went to some (really) hot springs, drove up to 4.900m to have a view over the volcanos that we did not have but at least watched plenty of llamas, alpacas and vicuñas on the way☺️Lue lisää