Peru: Huascarán National Park & Yungay

Continuing on with our northern Peru trip report...

Thursday, May 25 (written by Ray McAllister)

The next morning, Sharon and I woke up just in time to grab a roll and coffee before boarding the group bus. I had a chance to meet some of the people I would be traveling with in the next 2 weeks. The plan today was to visit the Lagunas Llanganuco, the same place I had been to the day before. I didn’t mind, it was a beautiful area and I was happy to visit it again with Sharon. The bus drove north along the Santa River, climbed ... (more)

Santa Rio Valley & snow-capped mountains
We made a quick photo-stop on the drive up. The lighting was not particularly...

Bromeliads and Andean Geese

Our picnic spot near Chinancocha Lake
A u-shaped glacial valley forms the core of Huascarán National...

Orconcocha Lake
This is where we started to hike the María Josefa Trail.

Ahh, simply glorious !

I just love the color palette

Howling winds rock and age old ice

Howling winds, rock, and age old ice
I put a selenium quad-tone on this photo in Photoshop CS2. Sometimes I like a...

Clouding my view

Hide and seek

Checking out the birds and the view

Mountain drama

Mountain majesty

Scenic abstraction

It's hard not to go crazy

Simply crazy ... taking photos!

Spectacular

Up, up and away

Up, up, and away - selenium toned
This is one of my favorite photos. The Cordillera Blanca is such a remarkable...

Glacial lakes
Gloria related a legend of how these two glacial lakes, Chinancocha (in...

Flowering yellow at 15,0000 feet

Oh, that snaking road

That road snakes and snakes

Now, that's one steep, twisting road!

Inside the dining tent

View out dining tent window

Chicken n veggies

Texture

Wild grasses and Lake Oroncocha

Vegetation along the María Josefa Trail

Quenual trees

Bromeliads Huascaran Natl Park

Bromeliads hopping a ride

Red and yellow tipped bromeliads

Group on the trail

Clusters of powdered blue

Jupey chucru flower closeup

Dainty groundcover

Alpine daisies

Nature's gift

Proteas

Potocshu - slipper-like yellow balls
These yellow slipper-shaped flowers graced shrubs which ranged in...

Purple mosaic

Yellow dance

Standing tall

Study in green and white

Ferns, rock and quenual trees

Trail bromeliads hopping a ride

Crimson crowned bromeliad

María Josefa Trail

Arching bromeliads

White water

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End of the trail

Along the road from Huascarán Natl Park
on the way to Yungay.

Huascarán gold

Huascarán pink blue and soft gray

View from el cementario at old Yungay

This statue survived the 1970 landslide

Hotel El Patio - Monterrey, Peru

Hotel room at the El Patio

Flowers at El Patio

article published 07/16/2006

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I agree
Jean,

Like you say, the area is absolute beauty. I am so glad to learn it has remain unspoiled. Sure hope it stays that way!

Sharon
— Sharon McAllister, August 17, 2007

ahhhh....
My husband and I were in Huaraz and this whole area in 1980. It is just as beautiful as I remember it. Thank you for sharing your wonderful pictures. Visiting Yungay was a powerful and haunting experience.
— Jean, August 16, 2007

BEAUTIFUL!! Thanks so much for sharing your marvelous photos with us, Sharon!!
— Eleanor Robb, July 22, 2006

Great Photos!!
Magnificent photos of a beautiful region!! I was there in the cold, rain and fog!! But you had fantastic weather!! Huaraz is a beautiful spot with a tragic history (1970) and very different to South tourist trail of Peru. Thanks!!
— James Yeomans, July 17, 2006

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