Chivay, Peru
I'm currently in Canon de Colca. It's about a four hour drive north of Arequipa . We took the bus up here yesterday . On the way we sighted some alpacas , llamas and the local vicuñas ( which I think are like a hybrid of a llama and alpaca ?). Slowly we ascended up a bit of the Andean mountains . According to the lonely planet we got to 4800 m! Arequipa where we just came from is at 2300m . Lima is at sea level. So yeh it was quite high . We stopped on the way a...