The Colca Valley

The Colca valley has much to offer. This region, among the mountains of the Western Andes in southern Peru, is a zone of superlatives. It has the world's deepest canyon. It is home to one of the world's largest flying birds - the condor. It is the habitat of the mammal that bears the world's finest noble fibre - the Vicuña. It has the highest chain of active volcanoes on the planet and, as though all that were not enough, some of the purest and oldest Peruvian ethnic groups: the Collahuas and the Cabanas.