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good morning from Chivay Peru. It's still 6:25 in the morning we just had our breakfast which is a big
social gathering. We get coffee and coca tea and also some bread and we are
currently waiting for the bus and we're just gonna load up and the first thing
we're gonna see today is the condor fly in colca canyon there's a lot of condors
and we're gonna see some of them in action now ready for the day
right now we are in the village of Yanque and we are observing these young
girls that are behind us they are doing what's called a traditional Peruvian
dance some of the dresses that they're wearing are quite expensive we
understand about 2,000 to 3,000 soles it's a beautiful morning here it's a
little bit chilly we're still wearing our shorts there everyone else is kind
of looking at it strange but we are going to go check this out maybe get our
picture taken with llama what's the volcano in the background and
then maybe get out of here and go watch some condors
what an incredible view down to Colca canyon you can see the Colca River
and then you can see the Sun in your eyes and come up the warmth and their
terraces it's really really cool and of course it's a llama photo selfie
opportunities everywhere major tourist stop
cute llama but not gonna cut it for me
I can breathe easier at 3,500 meters these are some of the highest
toilets in the world and we're told that you can have toilet paper how if you
just visited one of the highest toilets in the world was it everything you
dreamed and had toilet paper I didn't check but the urinal doesn't flush this is
a report from the highest toilet in the world
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we are surrounded by condos are there condors everywhere here and they don't
flap their wings either they just go with the thermo booty-call the thermal
clients and with underwater you call it simmer clients but I don't know what you
call it here we got to get this guy we get this going
so cool photobomb like thunder you just go on the jet stream so just kind of
glides across and they're really heavy bird supposed to be 12 to 14 kilograms
yes about 30 pounds wingspan this is about three meters long mm-hm about ten
feet it is a big bird so let's go watch them again
yeah I'm fun to watch yes everybody else went down there but if you go down there
you have to come back up which means you have to get exhausted because there's no
air up here and this that's really high up actually it's like 11,000 maybe 30
about 3,500 meters so yeah eleven twelve thousand this is such an amazing place
but there's so many people here that people talking and all that walking
around you can't hear that they used here in the canyon so we're gonna hear
sounds like a sprinkler system on but if we were here alone would be much better
and that's completely selfish to say but I didn't imagine will be if we are by
ourselves skin is so serene but like me taking video Hollis being carried out by
here so we have to look for a bus it's our two bus right there
in high altitude when you just walk fast in just a little press nothing will make
it I think 3700 almost 3800 meters 12,000 almost 12,000 four hundred feet
OOP but we made it to our bus yes yes don't
move don't move it's still there it's still there a Vespa time to go time to
go
our next our business overview of colca valley you can see all the terraces that
been cultivated for hundreds of years since the inter time is more than 500
years ago it is currently a dry season so it's not lush and green and fully
vegetated but you can actually see all the stone works and then all that where
you think plants would be the views up here are absolutely freakin incredible I
can only imagine what this looks like during the rainy season when all this is
green we were told by our tour guide that these you can see two towns here
I'm not sure this is called the coca Valley but just being up here and
driving on this road and seeing all this stuff is just amazing I've never seen
anything like this this region is called the Sankar yo and it's supposed to be
similar to kiwifruit but it's gonna be super sour some Scimitar it is
definitely sour it's more sour than plus yes 10:30 in the morning and it's 5
o'clock somewhere definitely and I'm trying something it's called
caucus hour yeah it's alcohol yeah it's not even noon yet but it is drained of
this region and it's similar to pisco sour except this is caucus hour instead
of lime juice they're using the Santuario cactus salsa bit sour you can
definitely taste a little sourness to it it's supposed to be good for your health
well the cactus there is not probably the alcohol in the morning it's
refreshing it's good yeah the grey stuff on her hand she presses
it to her hand and it turned into a red as I kill it the parasite when I used to
use
next up it's a small town called Makkah this is where you can find the best
Church here in colca valley but the small town has a very beautiful setting
for sure no matter where you look you're just surrounded by mountains and just
such a beautiful weather
so I'm gonna show you guys something we are currently at 16,000 feet and this is
the inside my bag I have three ink pens and some sharpies and all my ink pens
because of the high elevation and start to leak
nothing like a Styrofoam cup said Michael