Category: Lares Valley

A photograph of houses in Cuncani, Peru in the early morning.

Another photo of Nevado Sirihuani.

There’s nothing quite as exciting as a 45 minute hailstorm at 15,000 feet.

This is the gate to the schoolyard in Cuncani where we camped. Our guide pointed out several times that the school was constructed by an […]

A 17,713 ft, glacier-capped mountain (5399 meters) in the Peruvian Andes.

The extremely small village of Cuncani is in the valley on the right side of this photo. This wonderful view greeted us while descending to […]

A mountain house outside of Quishuarani, a small village in the sacred valley region of Peru. This house is located at 12,800 feet (3900 meters) […]

We crossed this pass at 13,800 feet during our first day hiking in the Andes.