condors gliding on the thermals around us - these are just incredible birds - so gracefully and silently soaring in these huge canyons - this was indeed a very special place. The time was ticking on though and the temperature was dropping, so we decided to head off. Just as we did though a condor came out of nowhere and flew right over our heads - it couldn’t have been more than twenty foot above us!! It came as such a surprise that I didn’t have time to set the camera up properly - so sorry the photo is a little blurred!!

The rest of the night was uneventful, the hotel’s restaurant was worse than it’s cold, draughty rooms, and we had an early night in preparation for our 5.30 wake up call to get the first bus to the Cruz del Condor viewpoint!! Waking up at 5.30 in the morning we were greeted by thick fog. It was a proper pea-souper!! It was freezing and just to make things worse the

advertised 6am bus wasn’t running so we had to wait until 6.30!! As we headed back up the canyon we went through a few teasing patches where the fog lifted and we could see blue sky, but they were very short lived and when we arrived at the viewpoint the visibility was around twenty feet!!

How gutted were we when we’d driven past the previous day when it was beautifully clear? Undeterred we walked down to the platform which overhangs the canyon, but it was useless - there wasn’t a thing to be seen!! The highlight of the morning was the sandwich we had for breakfast - avocado, cheese and tomato and a warming cup of coca tea made by a friendly local lady in Traditional Peruvian dress. The avocados in Peru are amazing - they are the size of a melon!! We didn’t even know what they were in the shops until this morning when the lady cut one open to make our sandwich!! We still had over an