Survived my first trek!

Some might call me mad as I have done my first 3-days trek only one day after arriving in Arequipa, but somehow it worked out surprisingly fine. After a pick-up at 3am on Thursday morning and a bumpy 6-hours ride we arrived at Colca Canyon. Even though it is with 4160m the 2nd deepest canyon in the world (double as deep as Grand Canyon) it is not well known.

The first day we walked 1200m down into the canyon, which does not sound too bad. But doing this around midday at about 33 degrees celsius is actually quite exhausting. In order to forget the pain in my legs I treated myself with a nice Alpaca meal and my first Pisco Sour in the evening - yummy!

The second day was quite relaxed. We just walked for about 3 hours from the little village where we have stayed for the night to our next accommodation - a lush oasis in the middle of the canyon. Wow! What an amazing feeling to swim in a pool surrounded by palms and colorful canyon walls.

I could have easily stayed there for some more days... But unfortunately we had to get up at 5am on our third day in order to walk up the canyon again. I have to say that I am sort of proud of me as I managed to do the 1200m in 2,5 hours even though it is said that you need about 3 hours  :-)

 
On our way back to Arequipa we stopped at a hot spring spa, which was wonderful and sooo relaxing. Just what I needed...!

The last stop was at 4,910m at the "Mirador de los Andes" with a breathtaking view to the vulcanos. What a wonderful end of an amazing tour!

I really was very lucky with the people on this tour as all of them were extremely nice and we had some good fun together. If any of you reads this blog - Thanks a lot for a great time together and I hope I will see you again one day!  :-)