Countdown continues

Back from Colca, waiting for a night bus to Nazca for a morning flyover of the lines before heading on my last bus ride to Lima. Gets harder everyday to imagine leaving and yesterday when we arrived in Chivay expecting sunny warm weather and were hit with a snowstorm it kind of threw a wrench in my plans. After a very very cold night at a friends place in which I was kept awake by both the cold and the all hours Quechua music concert in honor of the towns birthday (of course, because I think I have now been to every small town Andean village birthday celebration in Peru) I got up at 6 (when the music stopped naturally) and headed to Colca Canyon to see the Condor Crossing which was amazing. I have never seen such big birds in my life and they are so graceful for vultures and they fly so close you think you could reach out and touch them! The Canyon is amazing and fringed by snowcapped mountains, the cross itself is higher in altitude than Cusco and the ride to and from Arequipa to Chivay is intense, crosses passes over 15,000 feet and looks like an alien landscape.

Anyway just a quick note, more later after Nazca!