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Wingspan of the Andean Condor, Colca Canyon, Peru photo

Colca Canyon and Cabanaconde, Peru travel guide – The YEH, MEH, NAHs

February 5, 2013 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Guides

The cañón mas grande, Colca Canyon, Peru, is more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon and much more difficult to reach. The bone-shaking, heart-skipping bus ride from Arequipa is worthwhile for anyone looking to put a little distance…

Cabana woman in a traditional embroidered hat, Cabanaconde, Colca Canyon, Peru photo

Haberdashery: Better than head-smashery

January 24, 2013 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

Back in Pre-Hispanic times, two ethnic groups in the Colca Canyon area of Peru deformed their babies’ skulls — the Collagua into a taller, tapered noggin, the Cabana into a mesa-shaped cranium. Was the Collagua’s headscaping a disturbed bid for…

Funeral procession in the plaza, Cabanaconde, Colca Canyon, Peru

In the sun, in the shade

January 22, 2013 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

Today, the remote village of Cabanaconde in Colca Canyon, Peru feels like a place that’s just rolled out of bed — mussed, shuffle-footed, and a little slow to react. The mood is the same as in that first part of…

Sunset in the Colca Canyon valley, Peru photo

Views to die for in Colca Canyon

September 19, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

Having carrion-craving birds circling in the hot updrafts above you can indicate that those expert hunters of the dead and dying consider you a likely next meal. The condors in Colca Canyon, Peru may have smelled my sweat, thick with…

Cabanaconde donkey, Colca Canyon, Peru drawing

Drawings from a hike in Colca Canyon, Peru

September 13, 2012 · by Todd · in Peru, Travel Art

I made these drawings in Colca Canyon, Peru while resting my very sore legs from our long but rewarding hike.

View toward Llahuar from the ridge, Colca Canyon, Peru photo

Hike Colca Canyon without a guide: Map and trail guide to Llahuar

September 10, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Guides

The most compelling benefit of hiking Colca Canyon, Peru without a guide is that you can trek at your own pace. This means you can crick your neck watching circling Andean condors, stalk birds and beasts, and stop and smell…

Bird perched on a cactus, Colca Canyon, Peru photo

Beasts, birds, and bugs of Colca Canyon, Peru

September 6, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Photo Essays

The Andean condors of Colca Canyon, Peru attract all the tourist paparazzi attention. Evade the camera flashes and flee down a trail, and there’s a captivating natural diversity in the sky, underfoot, and in the brush.

Purple flowers and a view of Colca Canyon, Peru photo

Huff, puff, and smell the flowers of Colca Canyon

September 5, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Photo Essays

Who’da thunk that hiking up the steep, deep, Colca Canyon, Peru would have been easier than hiking down the same 3,300-feet? Going downhill was so rough that I couldn’t stop and smell the…well, I don’t know what they’re all called,…

Llahuar Lodge cabin 105, Colca Canyon, Peru photo

The greatest fool in Peru

September 4, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

During dinner in a rustic hiker guesthouse at the bottom of Colca Canyon, Peru, Todd decides to treat our fellow travelers to a conversation to remember, for all the wrong reasons. His choice? A story about a penis.

Sign to Llahuar hiking trail, Colca Canyon, Peru photo

Hitting rock bottom in Colca Canyon

August 30, 2012 · by Lauren · in Peru, Travel Stories

I’m not the kind of chick who cries. Though I’m overflowing with empathy, I’m cut from stoic stock. I cry more often while cutting onions than from sorrow or joy. Yet, at the bottom of the world’s deepest canyon, I…

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