AREQUIPA - SIBAYO: Where the Colca Canyon starts
Sibayo
is a cozy Andean town with stone and mud brick huts and 1,700 truly friendly inhabitants,
located where the river starts to form the Colca
Canyon. Here the feeling is that time stopped centuries
ago; traditional activities like cooking with wood and milking cows are part of their
daily lives.
Location:
1 hour Northeast from Chivay, Colca. 3,810
masl (12,497 fasl)
Ingredients
/ activities:
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Treks to the Paraqra Mummy and to the archaeological site of Huañasccasca.
-
Alpacas and sheep pasture
-
Fishing for local trout in the Colca
River
with traditional hand-made nets
