South America

Below are some pictures from the last week in Arequipa and hiking down in Colca Canyon

Arrival in Arequipa

View of Arequipa

On the way to Colca Canyon we stopped for a night in a small town called Chivay. In this area much of the mountain has been ¨terraced¨
I was told yesterday that much of this work was done between 800 and 1300 A.D. I didnt take this picture but it was the best I could find to show the terraces.

Here is a view of the Oasis that we were hiking down to. Believe it or not this picture was taken after we had already been hiking down for about an hour. The Oasis was over 3000 vertical feet below the town were we started out that afternoon.

This is what it looked like at the bottom a few hours later.

Picture of Scott hiking back up the following morning around 8:30 AM

Scott and I with our bamboo walking sticks. Some of you liked the camel shadow picture from Morocco a few years ago so I though I´d try it again.

And we thought we were the only ones with a party box. This guy had his own... although it was pumping out static rather than killer techno beats.