it's like a few tombs dated back to more than 500 years ago from the Inka period
and do not touch anything or remove any wrong so you can see all that skulls
there too
good morning it is not even 7:30 yet and we're getting ready to head out for the
day yeah we are planning on doing a two-day trip we are going to explore the
cloaca Canyon mmm this want to prove Hobbs suggested trips so it's a place
where it's I think the second deepest Canyon in the world so but you have
three hours drive to the town of TV and we're supposed to see condors there and
other wildlife llamas and alpacas all right so we're about to head out the
three-hour drive to achieve a a three-hour tour by a pool we're on the
bus we actually get picked up at 8 o'clock so technically it's still within
the timeframe from seven o'clock to eight perfect but that actually means
that anyone else is getting think that it's gonna be tough late
stop it time to get some hopeful eaves we are in our first stop which is
basically but five minutes away from the city this is just first pit stop to get
bathroom break and coffee if you need one and it's recommended that we
actually get some coca leaves and coca candy because we're gonna go up so high
about 5,000 meters so hopefully it's not going to be out of the sickness so I
think we're gonna buy coca leaf just to mix in a tea or something like that and
then she has a feeling the cocoa products you have the chocolate and also
some can be I think I'm just gonna get prepare and get a bunch of these so I
bought to part us today wanna see coca leaves itself and it comes with the
little sugar so you can make tea out of it and the second one although I'm not
sure 100% it's gonna work but looks yummy so I'm gonna give a try chocolate
chocolate this is what we refer to in Peru as animals
so we are currently in the National Reserve this area is well known for the
vicuna so the sovereignty between is all round if you don't know what betweenness
basically looks like a boxer or Lama but they're all over it call it high mutual
and yet you can have five or more than five females only Broadway and then
there's a lot of buses so you have to be very careful cross industry and
especially when you're just concentrating on the vicunas
simply beefy cuneus for photographs you can't touch them - I think we're
starting to get a little higher up now so I'm going to try a few of these cocoa
leaves because there's supposed to be good for higher elevation and I'm
actually getting a bit winded now so it's not affecting me like headache wise
or anything but it's affecting the breath or they get in so let's give it a
go so far it kind of just tastes like chewing tea so nothing too bad oh
there's a little bit of a stronger day so you just chew it up like a cow choose
grass swallow the juice keep chewing it up
swallow the juice and when you get no more juice and just spit it out this is
probably one of the highest elevation I've ever been I think this is 13,200
feet or about 4000 meters I feel a bit short of breath and a bit dizzy and I
did see some people having some kind of tea with police so I might have kept
some of them but other than that it's beautiful day I'm very happy to say that
I'm feeling just fine little shortness of breath is there but I think the
shortness of breath is even gonna get worse when we show you some of the
breathtaking views over here alright let's go look this is rolling your eyes
behind my sunglasses just get myself an Inca tea and this is supposed to be very
good because everybody's having it it's but for solace and then you could add
sugar or not but this one is still pure whatever you got it it's bitter how do
you like it Michael I actually like it better than the regular tea that you
often drink but this is definitely a nicer alright cheers to the high
altitude to not do sickness only that how it's forming look how it's forming
so many people here but everybody's taking a selfie with alpacas and llamas
so many llamas tickets as llamas here we'll find out cuz we're gonna go pet a
llama it's a nice little llama know everybody's in the group and seems like
there's some all because actually and thankfully nobody spit on me yet found a
pile of poop it's all dried but it's all poop okay yeah fine
this is officially the highest point I've ever been on land yeah Monica was
the highest before today but I think we're at least two or three hundred feet
maybe a hundred meters higher than that 16 thousand three hundred feet so we're
at almost 5,000 meters how're you feeling though it's a lot
harder to hold up this camera then then it used to be well I know for the fact
that my breath is so much shallower because the level of oxygen is so much
lower and actually when holly was walking
towards me he just sort of tripped because your balance is off a little bit
we're gonna explore Nia for five minutes and you can see all the volcanoes around
us and after this we're just gonna start climbing down but this is the highest
point officially it's actually kind of cold up here - on the way up we saw some
people you know chipping it ice along the way so doesn't feel like it's below
freezing but maybe closer to the ground it is all these little stone sculptures
or stone rocks behind us they're called Carens I guess people have been doing
this for years so local culture here textiles to honor the mother earth and
we respect that from this point you can see a lot of volcanoes at least five
that I counted to catch your breath why dolphins here
just take it easy slow and steady
this is the colca canyon tour offer bipro hop and one of its partners we
also get a walking tour around a small village just outside colca canyon show
us a bit about the history and I gotta tell you I'm a beat out already even
though we just started because we're at 13 or almost 14,000 feet and the air
pressure up here is not quite what we're used to anyway I'm gonna continue on
with the tour here but I'm going to write a complete Peru hop post about our
experiences as two guys you know in their 40s doing Peru hop through Peru
that post will include a lot of the information about some of the tours that
we personally chose to do with Peru up so let's catch up with the group my god
I hope we're not going up there it's a bit challenging especially when
you tried to catch up with people okay God we're going down and that means
you're gonna come up back up again yeah or we're meeting the bus downfall
no we're not yeah we are we just started for God's and it's not that high up we
made it to stop well oh we did not really now we have to
go off that yeah we have to go yep this reminds me way too much of my volcano
hike in Guatemala I'm just about last everyone's ahead of me I'm huffin and
puffin and complaining but apparently the end is worth it so let's keep going
my cat's stairs everywhere I don't think anybody's waiting for us somebody's
climbing up on this trail up to this point and you climb up this little cliff
tomb it's all the way up here somewhere
carefully definitely not funding on going that way that's Michael hey
Michael
no just followed the rest of the group I guess I might be totally out of breath
from a near complete lack of oxygen and I think there's another couple hundred
meters to go but look at this to you isn't that amazing
we were told this was an easy hike wrong
all right just stand right behind me here there's like a few tombs dated back
to more than 500 years ago from the Inca period when important people died they
get buried on this cliff in conquer Canyon and there's just so many
different paths that you can take to view some of them close by and then far
away but the most important thing is do not fall because when you fall that
means what they believe is that gonna be a bad luck for you so you have to give
something to the mother earth as an offering so that the bad luck not follow
you so that's the plan today not falling down and do not touch anything or remove
any wrong so you can see all that skulls there too so a lot of times when people
come up here they leave offerings at these ancient inca tombs and you can see
here there's money there's flowers there is there's even cigarettes well I don't
know why they bring cigarettes but and did you say someone said llama foetuses
even they bring up so all these offerings are made to the ancestors here
it's very very interesting and a little odd probably to just for our culture but
not here there are holes just like that all around all the way tunnel inside
this particular cliff and it's just unbelievable
I needed this after that big dinner yeah I still gotta make it down there you can
probably see everybody way back in the background that's not because I'm behind
cuz I'm lazy it's because I'm behind cuz I'm taking pictures this is how far away
I am be careful whenever a tour guide asks you if you want to go all the way
to the top then probably it's going to be good because why would they want to
go all the way up there they're probably most likely gonna take
you somewhere good
you
basic room for tonight I only have the two beds which is not a bad thing
basically the highest Irish pub in the world
Irish burro drinking can you just a basic Peruvian here
all right just waking up guys but I'm going to write a Peru hop