After booking a trip to the Colca Canyon (arguably the deepest canyon in the world, twice that of the ‘Grand Canyon) just north of Arequipa, we were picked up from our hostel at 2am to start the long drive up to see the Condors at ‘Cruz del Condor’. After about 1 hour of driving in the pitch black in the middle of nowhere on the side of a mountain, our driver decided to fall asleep and slowly drift over to the edge of the road.
Thankfully it wasn’t the edge of the mountain, but the side of the upwards slope that the driver was pointing towards, and with a massive sudden jolt of the wheel, and a minivan full of gringos snapped out of their sleep, I forced myself to stay awake and watch the driver for the remaining 4/5 hours of the journey.
