July 5th - Colca Canyon

We spent the day hiking and driving through Colca Canyon and various villages along the way.  The scenery is incredible!  These pictures don't do it justice...

The rock piles are offerings to the mountain gods for a safe journey, etc.

We stopped in the afternoon at a condor crossing and were in luck!  Apparently, condors lay one or two eggs every two years and the baby condor spends almost a year before their first flight.  Wing spans can range 10 feet!

We hiked to some ruins and here is some scenery that we saw on the way.

....and here are some of the people we passed along the way.

Here are some llamas we saw literally "on the road" as we drove along.

We have no wi-fi in the canyon, so I'll post this when I can.

                                                                 Nite-nite!