“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

Monday, November 12, 2012

Colca Canyon pictures!!!!


 The stepped landscape in the Colca Canyon

Flight of the condor

Adult Condor with white back!

Flight of the condor 2!!

More condors....

Beginning of the Colca canyon trek.

Andean landscape (Oasis at the bottom - our destination for the night).

Cactus...

On the Colca trail

Nicole on the Colca trail.

More andean landscape.

We see the Oasis!! Finally some green in this desert....

Cabins in the Oasis. Paraiso Lodge where we stayed.

Nicole making her way back up to the top of the canyon on 2nd day.

Group pic after we all made it back to the top.

Local kid.

I try my hand at the Peruvian pan pipes...

Local woman poses for me with her beautiful hat...

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  1. Archana KikkeriNovember 16, 2012 at 4:00 AM

    Too many new names of places for me, hard to remember! Looks like you are really having fun.

    Archana

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