The last big highlight of the inclusive Marieke time in Peru should be a visit to the heart of the Cordillera Blanca. Around the city of Huaraz and the Huarascaran National Park gather the highest and most famous peaks of Peru! The Huascarán is the highest there with 6768 meters and also the fourth highest of the Andes at all. Do not worry, we did not climb it ... In the ...
Incredible scenery! Just look at photos - they speak for themselves !! (Here could the blog entry end, but now one more, two infos :) - The colors (of the mountain) in the pictures are really like that (which you can not say by the way some of the worst post-processed photos on the net ... There you can really hurt yourself ...)! - The colors? Different minerals have each other ...
Before I came to Peru, I did not worry too much about the Incas. Perhaps I also thought that the last great indigenous civilization would be a bit too hype before the Spanish conquest ... After all, that was "only" 500, 600 years ago, and there were other similarly sized, older cultures here. That may also ...