Condor at Colca Canyon, Peru
Photo of the Week - 03/09/2008
The Colca river begins high in the Andes, at Condorama Crucero Alto, drops down to the Pacific in stages, changing its name to Majes and then Camana as it goes. Where it runs between the tiny mountain villages of Chivay to Cabanaconde is a deep canyon known as the Colca Canyon. Here, condors soar above the canyons and high into the thin mountain air.
This canyon is reportedly the deepest in the world, thought to be twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the USA. What brings increasingly more visitors each year, in addition to the awesome sights, are the Andean condors. Here in Colca Canyon, visitors can see them at fairly close range as they float on the rising thermals and scan for carrion far below them.
Read more about Colca Canyon.
Photo displayed with the kind permission of Katie Duran.
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