A 3.30am bus clunked us from Arequipa through astounding mountain scenery towards Colca Canyon. En route we stopped at Chivay, a small town where I snapped these ladies (pic) chatting in the market square. As all over the world, the smaller the place, the more there is to talk about.
Anyway, Colca Canyon is on the tourist tick-list because it's the Americas' second deepest at 3919m. (The deepest is Cotohuasi, nearby.) The viewpoint at Cruz del Condor (pic) gives you an astounding view to the bottom, 13000 feet down.
You can often see condors at the top, too, and indeed we did: a huge handsome specimen swooped by. Too quickly for me to photograph it, though.
I got off the bus at Cabanaconde, a small town at the head of the canyon. When I arrived it was rush hour (pic).
I hiked to some of the viewpoints around town that overlook the canyon (pic). With the high altitude and overhead sun ultra-strong in UV, I'm getting through sunblocker quicker than water.
One of the viewpoints is by the town football pitch (pic) which has one of the world's more spectacular settings of a local footy team. Beats Hackney Marshes.
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