Colca Canyon

This crazy animal hopped across the rocks in front of us. It´s a mixture between a rabbit and a dassie and I forget what they´re called but I´ll get back to you.

Nevado Mismi, apparently

It seems I´ve been bandying about ´The World´s Greatest´, ´World´s Most Dangerous´ etc a hell of a lot lately. I´m about to do it again. Apparently Colca Canyon is the world´s DEEPEST canyon. It is twice as deep as the Grand Canyon and at its deepest is 3300m from top to bottom. It runs 450km from where we were to the Pacific ocean in the west.

It is an unbelievable sight. It was such a shame that we didn´t get to explore it more, but here you have it. And if that wasn´t enough, we were also lucky enough to view three Condors riding the thermals at a place called Cruz del Condor. One of the Condors glided past a few metres away and I swear it was like a small plane. Standing 1 metre 20cm and with a wingspan of 3m they must be one of the biggest birds around. Awesome.

Another little bonus of our trip out to Colca Canyon was getting to see Nevado Mismi in the distance. The Nevado Mismi mountain is the unofficial source of the Amazon river.