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A shared taxi |
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Food. Cost: Appr. 1 USD |
Chincha |
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The panamerican highway |
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Desert, the Panamericana to Ica |
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Sand dunes at Huacachina |
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Sandboarding is fun! |
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Bad pic of an oasis |
Again, the panamerican highway |
A face in the rocks? |
Landscapes near Nazca |
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Cemetary of Chauquichilla (sp.?) |
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A park in Arequipa |
Arequipa |
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My first glimpses of the Pampa on |
the way to Chivay |
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The road to nowhere |
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Chivay is at the bottom of this valley |
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At an altitude of appr. 3200 M |
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Hot springs turned into pools  |
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The mighty Caņon de Colca, a truly spectacular canyon that at its deepest point measures 3000 M from the bottom to the top of the mountains surrounding it.
And the mountains surrounding it have peaks higher than 6000 M.
From the lookout point the drop to the bottom is appr. 1000 M.
Simply breathtaking.
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Leaving Chivay |
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The pass at 4900 M above sea level |
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Arequipa sunset |
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Desert landscapes outside Arequipa |
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The Pampa on the road to Puno |
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A local fiesta |
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Juliaca |
Rain on the altiplano |
Puno and Lake Titicaca |
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A small town on the road to Cuzco |
Atrium of my hotel |
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I stayed in Cuzco for over a week, but during that time made a small two day trip to the jungle town of Quillabamba. Basically i spent 8 hours in a bus, arrived in quillabamba early in the evening and got a return bus to Cuzco at noon the next day.
Quillabamba was nothing special, but the voyage definitely was!
First you leave the Cuzco valley (3000 M), travel over the altiplano (4000 M), then descend to the scared valley of the Incas (2500 M) from where you ascend to a pass at appr. 4500 M from where you finally descend to Quillabamba at an altitude of appr. 1000 M. Phew!
This might explain why a trip that is hardly 200 Km long can take so much time.
The Pampa |
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The sacred valley already lies below us |
This way up! |
The valley is still there |
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Yup, still there... |
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| And the final glimpse of the sacred valley  |
There is still a long way to the top... |
A peruvian bridge |
Snow covered giants appear out of the clouds |
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Finally at the top! |
And now we descend into the |
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