You start to laugh, to rub your eyes to make sure you're not seeing a fantastic mirage. Seconds pass, perhaps minutes...but that's not important here, in this valley where the boundaries of time disappear.

The breeze strokes your face, rumples your hair and you realize that that progression of rugged scenes framed by the gigantic grandeur of the snow peaks, the flower-decked fields and blue lakes, are not imaginings but something real, because you are in a place that is dream-like. You are in the Callejón de Huaylas.

Located in the Department of Ancash - a wonderful land where all the varieties of scenery of the planet can be enjoyed - the Callejón de Huaylas is a warm valley stretching between the Black and the White Cordilleras, watered by the winding Santa river that rises in Lake Conococha at over 13,000 feet above sea level.

	Entering the Callejon On the Way to Mant Huascaran A Look at Pastoruri