This gallery contains 12 photos.
Today was our second day around Colca Canyon. I still did not feel well, however this quickly changed after breakfast, some oxygen and some paracetamol did the job and I was soon back to fairly normal. We first did head … Continue reading
Our Colca Canyon trip started with a short delay; anyhow the bus soon started to climb up from Arequipa.
We had a first stop at the Area of Vicunas to watch vicunas, take pictures and engage into some souvenir shopping.
From here we continued – up, up and up – until we eventually reached the high pass between Arequipa and the canyon, at an altitude of 4900m.
Afterward it was downhill into Chivay. I felt really bad by now, the altitude really had hit me hard; I guess, we had simply climbed up to quickly (don’t forget, we had been at sea level a mere two days earlier); things though were improving the day after.
