Archive for March 4th, 2006

Santiago or Bust!

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

After the Colca canyon (see AliciaŽs post below), we headed to Tacna, the Peruvian border town. Here is the bus station where we relaxed a bit and used up our Peruvian phone cards before heading for the border. Our border crossing was quite fun. On AliciaŽs advice we opted for a taxi so that our [...]

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Colca Canyon

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

Last week we headed out of the city of Arequipa to go hiking in the Colca Canyon, the second deepest canyon in the world! Why would we want to hike down the second deepest canyon in the world? Well, I didnŽt think of that until we were about a third of the way down. It [...]

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