One of the main attractions of the Arequipa area is the worlds deepest canýon; The Colca Canyon and more importantly the condors that soar the skies in the valley.

Every single tourist agency in the city sells trips to the canyon, but we had already gotten a deal with the hotel we are staying at, so we where picked up in the morning for a two day trip into the canyon. After a long bus ride there is nothing like relaxing in a hotspring.

The trip itself to the canyon took 4 hours, luckily there where plenty of animals to watch on the way. Alpacas are not just cute and fluffy, they also give very fine fibers for clothes and above all they taste really good!!

Not only did we eat the cute fluffy animals, we also ate guinnee pigs, and once you get past they still have the heads and cute little hands attached, it is a dish that taste like a strange mix between rabbit and chicken. With dinner we also enjoyed a couple of dancers exibiting some of the traditional dances of the locals. Guess who got picked to take part. in the dancing.. (in my case I had to dance the 'Malaria dance' where you have to pretend to eat an orange, get malaria, trow yourself on the ground and shiver all over while your partner hits you with a rope...)

When we finally got to the condors, they appeared almost immediately, soaring on the hot air currents and we had a great time trying tospot them and capture them before they soared too high above our heads.

We are both doing really good with the altitude by now. Maybe it is thecoca leaves we are chewing,the final test will be tomorrow when we will try to climbthe active volcano Misti.