Photos – August 20th – Day 17

View at the back of the hotel in Chalhuanca. You can the town is deep in the valley

The main street in Chalhuanca - there's a local bus outside the hotel (the yellow sign is for the hotel)

PLaza de Armas in Chalhuanca

Another view of the hotel in Chalhuanca - across the road

Chalhuanca - with the alternative to the bus being loaded up. Also featured is our hotel

Uisdean, Eric and Oscar checking out souvenirs in Chalhuanca

One of the few straight sections of road between Abancay and Curahuasi

A valley view on the way to Abancay

Not sure what this is - plant ID online comes up with different answers

That's a footbridge in the centre. On the road to Abancay

We stopped to look at the footbrings and spotted a butterfly

A definite change in geology with rather red tinged rock outcrops

Another footbridge further along the road to Abancay

A view along the footbridge

We persuaded Uisdean to go and stand on the footbridge to prove it was safe!

A view into a wide valley, possibly close to Abancay - you can see the road on the hillside to the left

A 'rural' petrol station and it had two pumps! That's out SWB Land Rover on the right - I think we were waiting for someone to appear

Abancay main street

While we were looking around Abancay the schools came out!

A good illustration of the zig-zag nature of the road as it descended into the valley

Before descending we had a stop and you can see snow-capped mountains in the distance

Spectacular flowers of an Agave

Spectacular valley view

The sun just setting behind the mountains