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Altitude
When you drive to the Colga Canyon
you realy are at a high altitude! You don't drive
over small mountain ways, but you drive on straight roads. So you do not
realy notice the altitude is so heigh..... But
when you get out of the bus and start to walk, you feel different. The
condition is suddenly very bad! When you're a teenager, you feel like an
elderly person. But 6 km height is a lot!
6 km? Yes, look at the
photo !
You can eat coca leaves and drink coca tea aginst the
sickness of altitude, but the best cure is to descent and don't do physical
things.
Because of the thin air it's also more dangerous to drive.
Drivers are glad when they finished the trip. At a stop on
6km
height, you see little towers of small
stones This is a kind of superstition of
the drivers. Everytime they reache this place, they put another little stone
on their tower and they pray for a safe return. So you can see, some drivers
made this trip very often.
Condors
It's not sure you would see one, because there're not many
condors . You can't wait
for hours, so you need to have some luck. After waiting for half an hour, I
had the luck to see some condors. They float on the air and don't move their
wings. They use the rising air from the mountain. Of course you can't see
the condors nearby, but I saw condors from a distance of about 200-500 meter.
View
The place you can see the condors is
very pretty. We walked in the neighbourhood, but it was not an easy walk
because of the altitude.