Cordillera Blanca is a paradise for mountain-lovers. This region offers the highest concentration of 6000+ peaks just after Himalaya with great accessibility. From professional climbers to day hikers, everyone that loves to be enchanted by the greatness of high altitude glacier landscapes will find his place around here. Most travelers arrive to Huaraz which is bustling with tour agencies, but we opted for a smaller town of Caraz near to the starting point of the Famous Santa Cruz trek. Before taking on the 4-day trekking we visited Laguna Paron to make some acclimatisation hikes. We could sleep in our car at the viewpoint over the Lagoon and were (the bitter cold apart) completely overwhelmed by the scenery. We'll let the pictures tell the rest :)
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At this point of our travel we already knew that Manca's parents are joining us in Chile in beginning of september so we needed to speed up our traveling pace a bit. We spent the last days in Ecuador in a great company of fellow travellers in Cuenca and enjoyed the best coffee of our lives in the Ecuadorian caffein capital Loja before succesfully and smoothly crossing our first border with the car. We quickly got to know a brand new aspect of the continent as we found ourselves in the middle of vast desertlands of northern Peru. If someone dropped us there just out of the blue we would have guessed to be somewhere in northern Afica. The distances got longer, we were passing through rural lands and often sharing our campsite with farm animals while staying at very friendly locals. Friendlyness aside... this is by far the dirtiest place we have ever encoutered. The roadside was constantly covered with layers of plastic bags and any other trash imaginable. Unfortunately this patern extended far into the desert all the way to the beaches and the Pacific ocean. |
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