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We left Cabanaconde in a dense fog, and I worried about the dangers of traffic on the road, with its steep dropoffs.  I tried not to think about that and just said a prayer to my guardian angel for protection.  I say a lot of those prayers here in South America!  We stopped at the Mirador but there was really no point because of the fog.  We wandered around a bit and even the local women selling blankets, sweaters, hats, souvenirs and the like were half-hearted in their at...

Briefly said. The best trip you can imagine. Great culture, fantastic nice people and an outstanding nature. Really worth every penny.

Magical is the perfect word to describe the experience here! Honestly, I had no clue as to what would await us during this tour, but I was so very pleased with what we saw. And even though at some stops, it did seem as though the community had planned everything especially for us visitors, it was still nice to be greeted with song and dance. During this visit, we had the pleasure of stopping off at different lama reserves, one of which was that of the Vicuña - a finer and more ...

We didn't know much about the Colca Canyon when we arrived in Arequipa, but we quickly got chatting tp some other travellers who had recently done a trek down into the canyon and really enjoyed it. 'Marlon the tour agent at our hotel reccommended we do the trek in three days, but we decided to tough it out and attempt to do the walk in two days as we needed to move on to Cusco a soon as possible.  'Marlon' seemed like a reasonable guy, but when he said we had to leave at 1am in the...