Day 3: Uck!

Mood: Excited
Music: Mr Scruff - Big Chill

Today's post is going to be fairly brief as I've got to get this out before I go visit the museum that I couldn't see on Sunday as it was closed.

For the record I spent about 2 hours in a 38C thermal pool last night with just my head and hands poking above the surface so I could read my book as I watched the sun go down, changing the clouds above me from white to yellow to orange to pink. The restaurant was quite nice but I was pretty tired and had an early night. This might have been altitude related but I don't really know.

Today was an early start as I had a 5am wake up call. I had a taxi to take me to the local town square where the local children were doing some kind of traditional dance for the tourists.

We went onwards down the Colca valley past large areas of stepped farmland to the condor cross. We were warned that we might not see anything as the wind was very slight and the condors prefer slightly stronger winds so that they don't need to flap their wings at all.

In the 90 minutes we had looking out for them about 5 came into view for varying lengths of time and not long before we left one came in on a flat glide straight past us. I have a couple of photos here of said bird.

For most of you, who don't get the reference to the blog title... "Uck!" was my sister's first word and was generally used (apparently) to signify any kind of bird, not just ducks.

The rest of the day was spend trecking back to Arequipa. Tomorrow I fly on to Cuzco. I best get to the museum then!