Gramma Barbie Goes Global

This young lady was probably only 10 and she was working the tourists with her grandmother. This was at a stop between Chivay in the Colca Canyon and Puno

The tracks were like a some walkway. We were in a large van that had to backup twice to get around truly hairpin corners….with drop offs! We went in to pick up members of our tour group.

There were 4 more similar displays along the sides of the church. Most of the important villages in the Colca Valley have similar churches.

It dates back to 1885 and is quite elaborate inside.

These terraces line the whole valley.

This is what the Colca Vally is all about….terraced agriculture. There are 10,000 hectares of these terraces in the Colca Valley and about 7,000 of them are still actively farmed. The water supply is from the snow in the mountains that feed the Colca River and the irrigation ducts put there by the pre Inca and the Inca. There is not as much snow these days

This was why we got such an early start….we had to be at the condor viewpoint before 0900. It was woth it. At one point, we could count at least 17. I took a lot of pictures amd some video, but I still missed getting a shot of one dir try overhead and on,y about 10 feet above our heads. The awe was so great that you just forget to get the picture,