testmeat photoblog

this is a stitch of the final five shots i took with my camera before my battery died on the last day of the colca canyon trek. i pretty pleased with how they turned out - the view was spectacular. the left hand side of the frame is the canyon where i'd been hanging out for the last three days. i chose the three day option instead of two days, and it turned out to be a wise choice. in terms of ground covered they were both identical, so the benefit of stretching it out for three days was that the journey was more relaxed. this really paid off on day two where we arrived at a village called sangalle in the baking midday sun to find a beautiful garden and swimming pool to chill out in for the afternoon. we could only chill out so much though, as we had to set off on the steep ascent out of the canyon at 5am the next morning. i was the second to last person in our group to reach the summit, but resisted the lazy option of riding a mule up to the top. i was tired and sore, but that made me appreciate views like this all the more.

here's a larger version